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When you have shut your doors, and darkened your room, remember never to say that you are alone; for you are not alone, but God is within, and your genius is within; and what need have they of light to see what you are doing?

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For freedom is not acquired by satisfying yourself with what you desire, but by destroying your desire.

Although life is a matter of indifference, the use which you make of it is not a matter of indifference.

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

It is difficulties that show what men are.

For what is it that everyone is seeking? To live securely, to be happy, to do everything as they wish to do, not to be hindered, not to be subject to compulsion.

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