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Not things, but opinions about things, trouble men.

Epictetus

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Epictetus
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Epictetus of Hierapolis
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As in walking it is your great care not to run your foot upon a nail, or to tread awry, and strain your leg so let it be in all the affairs of human life, not to hurt your mind or offend your judgment. And this rule, if observed carefully in all your deportment, will be a mighty security to you in your undertakings.
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We must be afraid of neither poverty nor exile nor imprisonment of fear itself only should we be afraid.
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