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Epictetus of Hierapolis
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Have the wisdom to know what cannot be changed, and the strength to change what can.
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Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.
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Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
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Do not laugh much or often or unrestrainedly.
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Difficulty shows what men are. Therefore when a difficulty falls upon you, remember that God, like a trainer of wrestlers, has matched you with a rough young man. Why? So that you may become an Olympic conqueror but it is not accomplished without sweat.
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Renew every day your conversation with God: Do this even in preference to eating. Think more often of God than you breathe.
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If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.
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Never say of anything I have lost it, only say that I have given it back.
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Don't regard what anyone says of you, for this, after all, is no concern of yours.
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It is not things in themselves which trouble us, but our opinions of things.
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Let silence be your general rule or say only what is necessary and in few words.
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At this time is freedom anything but the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
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Be free from grief not through insensibility like the irrational animals, nor through want of thought like the foolish, but like a man of virtue by having reason as the consolation of grief.
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When you let go of your attention for a little while, do not think you may recover it whenever you please.
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What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
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Contentment, as it is a short road and pleasant, has great delight and little trouble.
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When the Idea, of any Pleasure strikes your Imagination... let that time be employed in making a just Computation between, the duration of the Pleasure, and that of the Repentance sure to follow it.
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He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses though he be not drunk.
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I have to die. If it is now, well then I die now if later, then now I will take my lunch, since the hour for lunch has arrived - and dying I will tend to later.
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Focus not on what he or she does, but on keeping to your higher purpose. Your own purpose should seek harmony with nature itself. For this is the true road to freedom.
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