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Epictetus of Hierapolis
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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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Let no man think that he is loved by any who loveth none.
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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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Do not so much be ashamed of that disgrace which proceeds from men's opinion as fly from that which comes from the truth.
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Seek not good from without seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.
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The origin of sorrow is this: to wish for something that does not come to pass.
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Men are disturbed not by the things that happen, but by their opinion of the things that happen.
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Confidence in nonsense is a requirement for the creative process.
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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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When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing?
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Let thy speech of God be renewed day by day, aye, rather than thy meat and drink.
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Never depend on the admiration of others for self-satisfaction. It is a fact of life that other people, even people who love you, will not necessarily agree with your ideas, understand you always, or share your enthusiasms.
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And have you not received faculties which will enable you to bear all that happens to you? Have you not received greatness of spirit? Have you not received courage? Have you not received endurance?
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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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Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.
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Seek to be the purple thread in the long white gown.
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To adorn our characters by the charm of an amiable nature shows at once a lover of beauty and a lover of man.
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Of pleasures, those which occur most rarely give the most delight.
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Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.
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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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