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Choose the life that is noblest, for custom can make it sweet to thee.

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Epictetus
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Epictetus of Hierapolis
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When you have decided that a thing ought to be done and are doing it, never avoid bein seen doing it, though many shall form an unfavorable opinion about it. For if it is not right to do it, avoid doing the thing but if it is right, why are you afraid of those who shall find fault wrongly?
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Seek not good from without seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.
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Don't regard what anyone says of you, for this, after all, is no concern of yours.
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Remember that you are but an actor, acting whatever part the Master has ordained. It may be short or it may be long. If he wishes you to represent a poor man, do so heartily if a cripple, or a magistrate, or a private man, in each case act your part with honor.
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Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
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Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time, nor does it take away the freedom of speech which proceeds from justice but it gives to us the knowledge of what is just and lawful, separating from them the unjust and refuting them.
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