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Epictetus
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Epictetus of Hierapolis
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If what the philosophers say be true, that all men's actions proceed from one source that as they assent from a persuasion that a thing is so, and dissent from a persuasion that it is not, and suspend their judgment from a persuasion that it is uncertain, so likewise they seek a thing from a persuasion that it is for their advantage.
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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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If thou rememberest that God standeth by to behold and visit all that thou doest whether in the body or in the soul, thou surely wilt not err in any prayer or deed and thou shalt have God to dwell with thee.
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An ignorant person is inclined to blame others for his own misfortune. To blame oneself is proof of progress. But the wise man never has to blame another or himself.
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When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing?
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Envy is the antagonist of the fortunate.
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What is yours is to play the assigned part well. But to choose it belongs to someone else
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To a reasonable creature, that alone is insupportable which is unreasonable but everything reasonable may be supported.
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You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.
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Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time, nor does it take away the freedom of speech which proceeds from justice but it gives to us the knowledge of what is just and lawful, separating from them the unjust and refuting them.
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What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
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All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
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Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.
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Difficulty shows what men are.
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Renew every day your conversation with God: Do this even in preference to eating. Think more often of God than you breathe.
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No living being is held by anything so strongly as its own needs.
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It were no slight attainment could we merely fulfil what the nature of man implies.
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