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Epictetus of Hierapolis
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You can be happy if you know this secret: Some things are within your power to control and some things are not.
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As it is pleasant to see the sea from the land, so it is pleasant for him who has escaped from troubles to think of them.
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A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.
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Some things are up to us [eph' hêmin] and some things are not up to us. Our opinions are up to us, and our impulses, desires, aversions–in short, whatever is our own doing. Our bodies are not up to us, nor are our possessions, our reputations, or our public offices, or, that is, whatever is not our own doing.
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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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What thou avoidest suffering thyself seek not to impose on others.
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In theory there is nothing to hinder our following what we are taughtbut in life there are many things to draw us aside.
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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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When we act pugnaciously, and injuriously, and angrily, and rudely, to what level have we degenerated? To the level of the wild beasts. Well, the fact is that some of us are wild beasts of a larger size, while others are little animals, malignant and petty.
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Freedom and slavery, the one is the name of virtue, and the other of vice, and both are acts of the will.
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I must die. Must I then die lamenting? I must be put in chains. Must I then also lament? I must go into exile. Does any man then hinder me from going with smiles and cheerfulness and contentment?
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As in walking it is your great care not to run your foot upon a nail, or to tread awry, and strain your leg so let it be in all the affairs of human life, not to hurt your mind or offend your judgment. And this rule, if observed carefully in all your deportment, will be a mighty security to you in your undertakings.
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If you see anybody wail and complain, call him a slave, though he be clad in purple.
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Reason is not measured by size or height, but by principle.
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No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.
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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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Of pleasures, those which occur most rarely give the most delight.
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If I can acquire money and also keep myself modest and faithful and magnanimous, point out the way, and I will acquire it.
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Getting distracted by trifles is the easiest thing in the world… Focus on your main duty
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An ignorant person is inclined to blame others for his own misfortune. To blame oneself is proof of progress. But the wise man never has to blame another or himself.
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