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The best place to get help is from yourself.
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A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.
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Of pleasures, those which occur most rarely give the most delight.
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Don’t consent to be hurt and you won’t be hurt – this is a choice over which you have control
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Why, do you not know, then, that the origin of all human evils, and of baseness, and cowardice, is not death, but rather the fear of death?
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When a youth was giving himself airs in the Theatre and saying, 'I am wise, for I have conversed with many wise men,' Epictetus replied, 'I too have conversed with many rich men, yet I am not rich!’.
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It is not my place in society that makes me well off, but my judgements, and these I can carry with me... These alone are my own and cannot be taken away.
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Some things are in our control and others not. Things in our control are opinion, pursuit, desire, aversion, and, in a word, whatever are our own actions. Things not in our control are body, property, reputation, command, and, in one word, whatever are not our own actions.
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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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Every difficulty in life presents us with an opportunity to turn inward and to invoke our own submerged inner resources. The trials we endure can and should introduce us to our strengths.
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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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Exceed due measure, and the most delightful things become the least delightful.
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Whoever wants to be free, therefore, let him not want or avoid anything that is up to others. Otherwise he will necessarily be a slave.
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What is it to be a philosopher? Is it not to be prepared against events?
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We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to 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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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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