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Epictetus of Hierapolis
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You may fetter my leg, but Zeus himself cannot get the better of my free will.
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Let thy speech of God be renewed day by day, aye, rather than thy meat and drink.
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Other people's views and troubles can be contagious. Don't sabotage yourself by unwittingly adopting negative, unproductive attitudes through your associations with others.
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Ask yourself, How are my thoughts, words and deeds affecting my friends, my spouse, my neighbour, my child, my employer, my subordinates, my fellow citizens?
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Men are not worried by things, but by their ideas about things. When we meet with difficulties, become anxious or troubled, let us not blame others, but rather ourselves. That is: our ideas about things.
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Contentment, as it is a short road and pleasant, has great delight and little trouble.
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It is a mark of a mean capacity to spend much time on the things which concern the body, such as much exercise, much eating, much drinking, much easing of the body, much copulation. But these things should be done as subordinate things: and let all your care be directed to the mind.
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Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
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Happiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing.
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Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.
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As a man, casting off worn out garments taketh new ones, so the dweller in the body, entereth into ones that are new.
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Man is not fully free unless he is master of himself.
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Act well your given part the choice rests not with you.
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If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit give it nothing which may tend to its increase.
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Think of God oftener than you breathe.
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Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
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It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it.
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If you see anybody wail and complain, call him a slave, though he be clad in purple.
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If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
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A thing either is what it appears to be or it is not, but yet appears to be or it is, but does not appear to be or it is not, and does not appear to be.
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