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You are but an appearance, and not absolutely the thing you appear to be.
Epictetus
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What thou avoidest suffering thyself seek not to impose on others.
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Seek not good from without seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.
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We all carry the seeds of greatness within us, but we need an image as a point of focus in order that they may sprout.
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No man is able to make progress when he is wavering between opposite things.
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As a man, casting off worn out garments taketh new ones, so the dweller in the body, entereth into ones that are new.
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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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What disturbs people's minds are not events but their judgments on events.
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Every place is safe to him who lives with justice.
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It is not things in themselves which trouble us, but our opinions of things.
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Not things, but opinions about things, trouble men.
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Don't demand or expect that events happen as you would wish them do. Accept events as they actually happen. That way, peace is possible.
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The soul's impurity consists in bad judgements, and purification consists in producing in it right judgements, and the pure soul is one which has right judgements, for this alone is proof against confusion and pollution in its functions.
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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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