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Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?
Epictetus
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A soul that makes virtue its companion is like an over-flowing well, for it is clean and pellucid, sweet and wholesome, open to all, rich, blameless and indestructible.
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Never say of anything I have lost it, only say that I have given it back.
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Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return. Are you deprived of your estate? Is not this also a return?
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Every habit and faculty is preserved and increased by correspondent actions, as the habit of walking, by walking of running, by running.
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Dare to look up to God and say, Deal with me in the future as Thou wilt I am of the same mind as Thou art I am Thine I refuse nothing that pleases Thee lead me where Thou wilt clothe me in any dress Thou choosest.
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Any person capable of angering you becomes your master he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.
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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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You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.
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It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
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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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Unremarkable lives are marked by the fear of not looking capable when trying something new.
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What is learned without pleasure is forgotten without remorse.
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Every place is safe to him who lives with justice.
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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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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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When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it you can either accept it or resent it.
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If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself: 'I used to be angry every day then every other day now only every third or fourth day.' When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods.
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Of pleasures, those which occur most rarely give the most delight.
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Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control.
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Not things, but opinions about things, trouble men.
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