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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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Epictetus
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Epictetus of Hierapolis
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Neither the victories of the Olympic Games nor those achieved in battles make the man happy. The only victories that make him happy are those achieved against himself. Temptations and tests are combats. You have beaten one, two, many times still fight. If you defeat at last you will be happy your entire life, as if you have always defeated.
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You ought to choose both physician and friend, not the most agreeable, but the most useful.
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Difficulty shows what men are. Therefore when a difficulty falls upon you, remember that God, like a trainer of wrestlers, has matched you with a rough young man. Why? So that you may become an Olympic conqueror but it is not accomplished without sweat.
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Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.
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No living being is held by anything so strongly as by its own needs. Whatever therefore appears a hindrance to these, be it brother, or father, or child, or mistress, or friend, is hated, abhorred, execrated.
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Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?
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