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Epictetus
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Epictetus of Hierapolis
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No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.
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If you have anything better to be doing when death overtakes you, get to work on that.
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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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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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Covetousness like jealousy, when it has taken root, never leaves a person, but with their life. Cowardice is the dread of what will happen.
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What disturbs and alarms man are not the things, but his opinions and fancies about the things.
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It’s time to stop being vague. If you wish to be an extraordinary person, if you wish to be wise, then you should explicitly identify the kind of person you aspire to become.
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No great thing is created suddenly.
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What thou avoidest suffering thyself seek not to impose on others.
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No living being is held by anything so strongly as its own needs.
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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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Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.
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Don’t consent to be hurt and you won’t be hurt – this is a choice over which you have control
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Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
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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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When you have decided that a thing ought to be done and are doing it, never avoid bein seen doing it, though many shall form an unfavorable opinion about it. For if it is not right to do it, avoid doing the thing but if it is right, why are you afraid of those who shall find fault wrongly?
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It is not so much what happens to you as how you think about what happens. Epictetus
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He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses though he be not drunk.
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Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them
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If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
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