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If you would be a reader, read if a writer, write.

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Epictetus
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Epictetus of Hierapolis
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Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return. Are you deprived of your estate? Is not this also a return?
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He who laughs at himself never runs out of things to laugh at.
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Your master is he who controls that on which you have set your heart or wish to avoid.
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To a reasonable creature, that alone is insupportable which is unreasonable but everything reasonable may be supported.
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What thou avoidest suffering thyself seek not to impose on others.
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It is your own convictions which compels you that is, choice compels choice.
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No man is free who is not master of himself... Is freedom anything else than the power of living as we choose?
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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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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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To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.
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Appearances to the mind are of four kinds. Things either are what they appear to be or they neither are, nor appear to be or they are, and do not appear to be or they are not, and yet appear to be. Rightly to aim in all these cases is the wise man's task.
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When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it. It is not the things that disturb us, but our interpretation of their significance. Things and people are not what we wish them to be nor are they what they seem to be. They are what they are.
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What really frightens and dismays us is not external events themselves, but the way in which we think about them. It is not things that disturb us, but our interpretation of their significance.
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Do not laugh much or often or unrestrainedly.
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It is my business, to manage carefully and dexterously whatever happens
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Think of God more often than thou breathest.
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He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses though he be not drunk.
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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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It were no slight attainment could we merely fulfil what the nature of man implies.
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Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems
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