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Epictetus of Hierapolis
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A half-hearted spirit has no power. Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcomes. Average people enter into their endeavors headlong and without care.
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Whoever wants to be free, therefore, let him not want or avoid anything that is up to others. Otherwise he will necessarily be a slave.
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To live a life of virtue, you have to become consistent, even when it isn't convenient, comfortable, or easy.
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We must be afraid of neither poverty nor exile nor imprisonment of fear itself only should we be afraid.
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When we blather about trivial things, we ourselves become trivial, for our attention gets taken up with trivialities. You become what you give your attention to.
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Let silence be your general rule or say only what is necessary and in few words.
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Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.
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The soul's impurity consists in bad judgements, and purification consists in producing in it right judgements, and the pure soul is one which has right judgements, for this alone is proof against confusion and pollution in its functions.
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Remember that you are but an actor, acting whatever part the Master has ordained. It may be short or it may be long. If he wishes you to represent a poor man, do so heartily if a cripple, or a magistrate, or a private man, in each case act your part with honor.
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People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.
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The Beginning of Philosophy is a Consciousness of your own Weakness and inability in necessary things.
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If we are not stupid or insincere when we say that the good or ill of man lies within his own will, and that all beside is nothing to us, why are we still troubled?
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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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Pleasure, like a kind of bait, is thrown before everything which is really bad, and easily allures greedy souls to the hook of perdition.
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It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
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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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A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.
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There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
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Give yourself fully to your endeavors. Decide to construct your character through excellent actions and determine to pay the price of a worthy goal. The trials you encounter will introduce you to your strengths.
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As you think, so you become.....Our busy minds are forever jumping to conclusions, manufacturing and interpreting signs that aren't there.
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