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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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Act well your given part the choice rests not with you.
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Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control.
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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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Reason is not measured by size or height, but by principle.
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If you would improve, submit to be considered wihout sense and foolish with respect to externals. Wish to be considered to know nothing and if you shall seem to someone to be a person of importance, distrust yourself.
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Man is not fully free unless he is master of himself.
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By accepting life's limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.
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Things themselves don't hurt or hinder us. Things simply are what they are. How we view these things is another matter.People think what they will think it is of no concern to us.
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No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.
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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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Seek not good from without seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.
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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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Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.
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The universe is but one great city, full of beloved ones, divine and human, by nature endeared to each other.
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Our duties naturally emerge form such fundamental relations as our families, neighborhoods, workplaces, our state or nation. Make it your regular habit to consider your roles-parent, child, neighbor, citizen, leader-and the natural duties that arise from them. Once you know who you are and to whom you are linked, you will know what to do.
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Don't be concerned with other people's impressions of you. They are dazzled and deluded by appearances. Stick with your purpose. This alone will strengthen your will and give your life coherence.
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Happiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing.
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What ought one to say then as each hardship comes? I was practicing for this, I was training for this.
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We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them.
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We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.
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