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The Beginning of Philosophy is a Consciousness of your own Weakness and inability in necessary things.
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Freedom isn't the right or ability to do whatever you please. Freedom comes from understanding the limits of our own power and the inherent limits set in place by nature. By accepting life's limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, you become truly free.
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What hurts this person is not the occurrence itself, for another person might not feel oppressed by this situation at all. What is hurting this person is the response he or she has uncritically adopted. It is not a demonstration of kindness or friendship to the people we care about to join them in indulging in wrongheaded, negative feelings.
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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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Our duties naturally emerge form such fundamental relations as our families, neighborhoods, workplaces, our state or nation. Make it your regular habit to consider your roles-parent, child, neighbor, citizen, leader-and the natural duties that arise from them. Once you know who you are and to whom you are linked, you will know what to do.
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The appearance of things to the mind is the standard of every action to man.
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The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.
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Let silence be your general rule or say only what is necessary and in few words.
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When you let go of your attention for a little while, do not think you may recover it whenever you please.
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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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If a man is unhappy, remember that his unhappiness is his own fault, for God made all men to be happy.
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Difficulty shows what men are. Therefore when a difficulty falls upon you, remember that God, like a trainer of wrestlers, has matched you with a rough young man. Why? So that you may become an Olympic conqueror but it is not accomplished without sweat.
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Envy is the antagonist of the fortunate.
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In a word, neither death, nor exile, nor pain, nor anything of this kind is the real cause of our doing or not doing any action, but our inward opinions and principles.
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Man is not fully free unless he is master of himself.
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Getting distracted by trifles is the easiest thing in the world… Focus on your main duty
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Some things are up to us [eph' hêmin] and some things are not up to us. Our opinions are up to us, and our impulses, desires, aversions–in short, whatever is our own doing. Our bodies are not up to us, nor are our possessions, our reputations, or our public offices, or, that is, whatever is not our own doing.
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