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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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He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which is about God.
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Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control. Stop aspiring to be anyone other than your own best self: for that does fall within your control.
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I am always content with what happens for I know that what God chooses is better than what I choose.
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If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
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We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.
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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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It is not things in themselves which trouble us, but our opinions of things.
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It is a mark of a mean capacity to spend much time on the things which concern the body, such as much exercise, much eating, much drinking, much easing of the body, much copulation. But these things should be done as subordinate things: and let all your care be directed to the mind.
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When one maintains his proper attitude in life, he does not long after externals.
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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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-….when things seem to have reached that stage, merely say “I won’t play any longer”, and take your departure but if you stay, stop lamenting.
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Pain or pleasure? I say pleasure.
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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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He who laughs at himself never runs out of things to laugh at.
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It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it.
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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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Of pleasures, those which occur most rarely give the most delight.
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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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Every place is safe to him who lives with justice.
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