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You are but an appearance, and not absolutely the thing you appear to be.
Epictetus
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Happiness is an equivalent for all troublesome things.
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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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If you wish to write, write.
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Unremarkable lives are marked by the fear of not looking capable when trying something new.
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If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.
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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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You can be happy if you know this secret: Some things are within your power to control and some things are not.
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Men are disturbed not by the things that happen, but by their opinion of the things that happen.
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Men are not afraid of things, but of how they view them.
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Were I a nightingale, I would act the part of a nightingale were I a swan, the part of a swan.
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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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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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The wise realize that some things are within their control, and most things are not. They learn early on to distinguish between what they can and can't regulate.
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Exceed due measure, and the most delightful things become the least delightful.
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What hurts this person is not the occurrence itself, for another person might not feel oppressed by this situation at all. What is hurting this person is the response he or she has uncritically adopted. It is not a demonstration of kindness or friendship to the people we care about to join them in indulging in wrongheaded, negative feelings.
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Your master is he who controls that on which you have set your heart or wish to avoid.
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There is but one way to tranquility of mind and happiness, and that is to account no external things thine own, but to commit all to God.
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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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Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.
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No man is free who is not master of himself... Is freedom anything else than the power of living as we choose?
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