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No matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person.
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Within our control are our own opinions, aspirations, and desires and the demons that distract us from these goals. Outside of our control are such things as what kind of body we have, whether or not we are born into wealth, and how we are regarded by others.
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When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it you can either accept it or resent it.
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When our friends are present we ought to treat them well and when they are absent, to speak of them well.
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You are but an appearance, and not absolutely the thing you appear to be.
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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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You bear God within you, poor wretch, and know it not.
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People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.
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It is a mark of a mean capacity to spend much time on the things which concern the body, such as much exercise, much eating, much drinking, much easing of the body, much copulation. But these things should be done as subordinate things: and let all your care be directed to the mind.
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No man is disturbed by things, but by his opinion about things.
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It is the part of an uneducated person to blame others where he himself fares ill to blame himself is the part of one whose education has begun to blame neither another nor his own self is the part of one whose education is already complete.
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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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It has been ordained that there be summer and winter, abundance and dearth, virtue and vice, and all such opposites for the harmony of the whole, and (Zeus) has given each of us a body, property, and companions.
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