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Epictetus
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Epictetus of Hierapolis
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You bear God within you, poor wretch, and know it not.
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You become what you give your attention to...If you yourself don't choose what thoughts and images you expose yourself to, someone else will, and their motives may not be the highest.
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First tell yourself what you want to be, then do what you need to do.
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Be free from grief not through insensibility like the irrational animals, nor through want of thought like the foolish, but like a man of virtue by having reason as the consolation of grief.
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If thou rememberest that God standeth by to behold and visit all that thou doest whether in the body or in the soul, thou surely wilt not err in any prayer or deed and thou shalt have God to dwell with thee.
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The appearance of things to the mind is the standard of every action to man.
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If you wish to be a writer, write.
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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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If you see anybody wail and complain, call him a slave, though he be clad in purple.
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Of pleasures, those which occur most rarely give the most delight.
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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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It is your own convictions which compels you that is, choice compels choice.
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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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What ought one to say then as each hardship comes? I was practicing for this, I was training for this.
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You lose only the things you have
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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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The universe is but one great city, full of beloved ones, divine and human, by nature endeared to each other.
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Appearances to the mind are of four kinds. Things either are what they appear to be or they neither are, nor appear to be or they are, and do not appear to be or they are not, and yet appear to be. Rightly to aim in all these cases is the wise man's task.
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Covetousness like jealousy, when it has taken root, never leaves a person, but with their life. Cowardice is the dread of what will happen.
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It is not things in themselves which trouble us, but our opinions of things.
Epictetus