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Is pleasure, then, the object of your being, and not action, and the exercise of your powers?
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For death also is one piece of the business of life, and, here as elsewhere, it is enough to do well what comes to our hand.
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Love the art which you have learned, humble though it be, and in it find your recreation.
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the mind can convert and change everything that impedes its activity into matter for its action; hindrance in its work becomes its real help, and every obstruction makes for its progress
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Am I equipped for nothing but to lie among the bed-clothes and keep warm?
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In rest you go beyond these limits, and beyond what is enough; but in action you do not fill the measure, and remain well within your powers.
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Others, who love the art that they have made their own, exhaust themselves with labouring at it unwashed and unfed.
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No man can hinder the proper work of the mind.
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Bear toil and pain, not as if wretched under it, nor as courting pity or admiration.