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What is yours is to play the assigned part well. But to choose it belongs to someone else
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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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God has entrusted me with myself.
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It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
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Let thy speech of God be renewed day by day, aye, rather than thy meat and drink.
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Seek to be the purple thread in the long white gown.
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Men are disturbed not by the things that happen, but by their opinion of the things that happen.
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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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No man is disturbed by things, but by his opinion about things.
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It is unlikely that the good of a snail should reside in its shell: so is it likely that the good of a man should?
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Preach not to others what they should eat, but eat as becomes you and be silent.
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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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It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
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No man is free who is not master of himself.
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When a youth was giving himself airs in the Theatre and saying, 'I am wise, for I have conversed with many wise men,' Epictetus replied, 'I too have conversed with many rich men, yet I am not rich!’.
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We all dread a bodily paralysis, and would make use of every contrivance to avoid it but none of us is troubled about a paralysis of the soul.
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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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When one maintains his proper attitude in life, he does not long after externals.
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Give yourself fully to your endeavors. Decide to construct your character through excellent actions and determine to pay the price of a worthy goal. The trials you encounter will introduce you to your strengths.
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No living being is held by anything so strongly as its own needs.
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