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“Breathe the intellect which embraces all things as if it were the surrounding air.”

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“For us, nature’s final accomplishment is contemplation, becoming aware, and a way of living in harmony with nature.”

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“In the first place, sensation (aisthesis) is a corporeal process which we have in common with animals, and in which the impression of an exterior object is transmitted to the soul. By means of this process, an image (phantasia) of the object is produced in the soul, or more precisely in the guiding part (hegemonikon) of the soul.”

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“It is not things that trouble us, as Epictetus said, but our judgment about things.”

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“My intentions were good and that's what counts.”

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“The only thing each of us lives and loses is the present.”

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“It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.”


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