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Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.

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Epictetus
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Epictetus of Hierapolis
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We should not have either a blunt knife or a freedom of speech which is ill-managed.
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What disturbs and alarms man are not the things, but his opinions and fancies about the things.
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Man is troubled not by events, but by the meaning he gives them.
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Wish that everything should come about just as it does.
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Preach not to others what they should eat, but eat as becomes you and be silent.
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Whatever you would make habitual, practice it and if you would not make a thing habitual, do not practice it, but accustom yourself to something else.
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