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Epictetus of Hierapolis
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No living being is held by anything so strongly as by its own needs. Whatever therefore appears a hindrance to these, be it brother, or father, or child, or mistress, or friend, is hated, abhorred, execrated.
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Never depend on the admiration of others for self-satisfaction. It is a fact of life that other people, even people who love you, will not necessarily agree with your ideas, understand you always, or share your enthusiasms.
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I laugh at those who think they can damage me. They do not know who I am, they do not know what I think, they cannot even touch the things which are really mine and with which I live.
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We should not have either a blunt knife or a freedom of speech which is ill-managed.
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You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.
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Let silence be your general rule or say only what is necessary and in few words.
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Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time, nor does it take away the freedom of speech which proceeds from justice but it gives to us the knowledge of what is just and lawful, separating from them the unjust and refuting them.
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Any person capable of angering you becomes your master he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.
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Envy is the antagonist of the fortunate.
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