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Whoever expects punishment already suffers it, and whoever has deserved it expects it.
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The greatest thing in the world is for a man to know that he is his own.
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Wherever the mind is perplexed, it is in an entire disorder, and domestic employments are not less troublesome for being less important.
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In our ordinary actions there is not one of a thousand that concerns ourselves.
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Retire yourself into yourself, but first prepare yourself there to receive yourself: it were a folly to trust yourself in your own hands, if you cannot govern yourself.