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Epictetus
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Epictetus of Hierapolis
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With ills unending strives the putter off.
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If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible.
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Survey and test a prospective action before undertaking it. Before you proceed, step back and look at the big picture, lest you act rashly on raw impulse.
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It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.
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A half-hearted spirit has no power. Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcomes. Average people enter into their endeavors headlong and without care.
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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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Any one thing in the creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to a humble and grateful mind.
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O slavish man! will you not bear with your own brother, who has God for his Father, as being a son from the same stock, and of the same high descent? But if you chance to be placed in some superior station, will you presently set yourself up for a tyrant?
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When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it. It is not the things that disturb us, but our interpretation of their significance. Things and people are not what we wish them to be nor are they what they seem to be. They are what they are.
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Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control. Stop aspiring to be anyone other than your own best self: for that does fall within your control.
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Things true and evident must of necessity be recognized by those who would contradict them.
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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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Whatever you would make habitual, practice it and if you would not make a thing habitual, do not practice it, but accustom yourself to something else.
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You may fetter my leg, but Zeus himself cannot get the better of my free will.
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Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.
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Seek not good from without seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.
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Pleasure, like a kind of bait, is thrown before everything which is really bad, and easily allures greedy souls to the hook of perdition.
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Preach not to others what they should eat, but eat as becomes you and be silent.
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No man is free who is not master of himself.
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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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