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Epictetus of Hierapolis
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No man is able to make progress when he is wavering between opposite things.
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God has entrusted me with myself.
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Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
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Happiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing.
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If what the philosophers say be true, that all men's actions proceed from one source that as they assent from a persuasion that a thing is so, and dissent from a persuasion that it is not, and suspend their judgment from a persuasion that it is uncertain, so likewise they seek a thing from a persuasion that it is for their advantage.
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If you seek Truth, you will not seek to gain a victory by every possible means and when you have found Truth, you need not fear being defeated.
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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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Don't regard what anyone says of you, for this, after all, is no concern of yours.
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Opportunity beckons more surely when misfortune comes upon a person than it ever does when that person is riding the crest of a wave of success. It sharpens a person's wits, if that person will let it, enabling him or her to see more clearly and evaluate situations with a more knowledgeable judgment.
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The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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You bear God within you, poor wretch, and know it not.
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Choose the life that is noblest, for custom can make it sweet to thee.
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There is only one thing for which God has sent me into the world, and that is to develop every kind of virtue or strength, and there is nothing in all the world that I cannot use for this purpose.
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All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
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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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No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
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The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
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I laugh at those who think they can damage me. They do not know who I am, they do not know what I think, they cannot even touch the things which are really mine and with which I live.
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It is difficulties that show what men are. For the future, in case of any difficulty, remember that God, like a gymnastic trainer, has pitted you against a rough antagonist. For what end? That you may be an Olympic conqueror and this cannot be without toil.
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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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