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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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Epictetus
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Epictetus of Hierapolis
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Whoever wants to be free, therefore, let him not want or avoid anything that is up to others. Otherwise he will necessarily be a slave.
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Neither the victories of the Olympic Games nor those achieved in battles make the man happy. The only victories that make him happy are those achieved against himself. Temptations and tests are combats. You have beaten one, two, many times still fight. If you defeat at last you will be happy your entire life, as if you have always defeated.
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Act well your given part the choice rests not with you.
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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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