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Pain or pleasure? I say pleasure.
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Epictetus of Hierapolis
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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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O slavish man! will you not bear with your own brother, who has God for his Father, as being a son from the same stock, and of the same high descent? But if you chance to be placed in some superior station, will you presently set yourself up for a tyrant?
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Every difficulty in life presents us with an opportunity to turn inward and to invoke our own submerged inner resources. The trials we endure can and should introduce us to our strengths.
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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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We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.
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With ills unending strives the putter off.
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It is not things in themselves which trouble us, but our opinions of things.
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When the Idea, of any Pleasure strikes your Imagination... let that time be employed in making a just Computation between, the duration of the Pleasure, and that of the Repentance sure to follow it.
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A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.
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The soul's impurity consists in bad judgements, and purification consists in producing in it right judgements, and the pure soul is one which has right judgements, for this alone is proof against confusion and pollution in its functions.
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We all carry the seeds of greatness within us, but we need an image as a point of focus in order that they may sprout.
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We can't control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character.
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No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
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If anyone should tell you that a particular person has spoken critically of you, don't bother with excuses or defenses. Just smile and reply, I guess that person doesn't know about all my other faults. Otherwise, he wouldn't have mentioned only these.
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You become what you give your attention to...If you yourself don't choose what thoughts and images you expose yourself to, someone else will, and their motives may not be the highest.
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If I can acquire money and also keep myself modest and faithful and magnanimous, point out the way, and I will acquire it.
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Appearances to the mind are of four kinds. Things either are what they appear to be or they neither are, nor appear to be or they are, and do not appear to be or they are not, and yet appear to be. Rightly to aim in all these cases is the wise man's task.
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It is better to die of hunger having lived without grief and fear, than to live with a troubled spirit, amid abundance
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All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
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Practice yourself, for heaven's sake, in little things, and thence proceed to greater.
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