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Epictetus of Hierapolis
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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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The universe is but one great city, full of beloved ones, divine and human, by nature endeared to each other.
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Wish that everything should come about just as it does.
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Here is the beginning of philosophy: a recognition of the conflicts between men, a search for their cause, a condemnation of mere opinion .. . and the discovery of a standard of judgement.
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The Beginning of Philosophy is a Consciousness of your own Weakness and inability in necessary things.
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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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It is the sign of a dull mind to dwell upon the cares of the body, to prolong exercise, eating and drinking and other bodily functions. These things are best done by the way all your attention must be given to the mind.
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A thing either is what it appears to be or it is not, but yet appears to be or it is, but does not appear to be or it is not, and does not appear to be.
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You are but an appearance, and not absolutely the thing you appear to be.
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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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It is hard to combine and unite these two qualities, the carefulness of one who is affected by circumstances, and the intrepidity of one who heeds them not. But it is not impossible: else were happiness also impossible.
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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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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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Difficulty shows what men are.
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Whoever wants to be free, therefore, let him not want or avoid anything that is up to others. Otherwise he will necessarily be a slave.
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To live a life of virtue, you have to become consistent, even when it isn't convenient, comfortable, or easy.
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No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.
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When our friends are present we ought to treat them well and when they are absent, to speak of them well.
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You have been given your own work to do. Get to it right now, do your best at it, and don't be concerned with who is watching you. Create your own merit.
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Man is troubled not by events, but by the meaning he gives them.
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