"He has been a doctor a year now and has had two patients, no, three, I think -- yes, it was three; I attended their funerals."

Twain, Mark on doctors
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"Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul."

Twain, Mark on dress
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"Duties are not performed for duty's sake, but because their neglect would make the man uncomfortable. A man performs but one duty --the duty of contenting his spirit, the duty of making himself agreeable to himself."

Twain, Mark on duty
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"Adam was the luckiest man; he had no mother-in-law."

Twain, Mark on family
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"Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear."

Aurelius, Marcus on endurance
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"Your life is what your thoughts make it."

Aurelius, Marcus on life
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"Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live."

Aurelius, Marcus on life
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"How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it."

Aurelius, Marcus on anger
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"Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight."

Aurelius, Marcus on losers and losing
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"Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart."

Aurelius, Marcus on love
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"How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks."

Aurelius, Marcus on opinions
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"Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live."

Aurelius, Marcus on peace
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"If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment."

Aurelius, Marcus on power
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"Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life."

Aurelius, Marcus on power
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"If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgment of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgment now."

Aurelius, Marcus on judgment and judges
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"If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it."

Aurelius, Marcus on integrity
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"Where a man can live, he can also live well."

Aurelius, Marcus on joy   

"That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees."

Aurelius, Marcus on environment
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"Every man's life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain."

Aurelius, Marcus on focus
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"Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil."

Aurelius, Marcus on evil
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"Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself good while life and power are still yours."

Aurelius, Marcus on goodness
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"Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life."

Aurelius, Marcus on happiness
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"He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe."

Aurelius, Marcus on harmony
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"Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears."

Aurelius, Marcus on injury
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"A man should be upright, not be kept upright."

Aurelius, Marcus on integrity
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"Confine yourself to the present"

Aurelius, Marcus on present
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"I have often wondered how it is everyone loves himself more than the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than the opinions of others."

Aurelius, Marcus on self-esteem
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"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."

Einstein, Albert on difficulties
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"It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid."

Einstein, Albert on education
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"Education is the progressive realization of our ignorance."

Einstein, Albert on education
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"The bitter and the sweet come from the outside, the hard from within, from one's own efforts."

Einstein, Albert on effort
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"I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism have brought me to my ideas."

Einstein, Albert on endurance
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"The only source of knowledge is experience."

Einstein, Albert on experience
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"If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts."

Einstein, Albert on facts
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"I never think of the future. It comes soon enough."

Einstein, Albert on the future
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"I can't believe that God plays dice with the universe."

Einstein, Albert on gambling
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"The things you think about determine the quality of your mind. Your soul takes on the color of your thoughts."

Aurelius, Marcus on thoughts
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"Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle."

Aurelius, Marcus on cycles   

"To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions."

Aurelius, Marcus on sociology
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"To live happily is an inward power of the soul."

Aurelius, Marcus on soul
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