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Act well your given part the choice rests not with you.
Epictetus
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The universe is but one great city, full of beloved ones, divine and human, by nature endeared to each other.
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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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Wish that everything should come about just as it does.
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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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You can be happy if you know this secret: Some things are within your power to control and some things are not.
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Let no man think that he is loved by any who loveth none.
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The origin of sorrow is this: to wish for something that does not come to pass.
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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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Bid a singer in a chorus, Know Thyself and will he not turn for the knowledge to the others, his fellows in the chorus, and to his harmony with them?
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The pleasure which we most rarely experience gives us greatest delight.
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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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When we act pugnaciously, and injuriously, and angrily, and rudely, to what level have we degenerated? To the level of the wild beasts. Well, the fact is that some of us are wild beasts of a larger size, while others are little animals, malignant and petty.
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Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
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Pleasure, like a kind of bait, is thrown before everything which is really bad, and easily allures greedy souls to the hook of perdition.
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The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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If your heart is quite set upon a crown, make and put on one of roses, for it will make the prettier appearance.
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He is free who lives as he wishes to live who is neither subject to compulsion nor to hindrance, nor to force whose movements to action are not impeded, whose desires attain their purpose, and who does not fall into that which he would avoid.
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Pain or pleasure? I say pleasure.
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Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.
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Law intends indeed to do service to human life, but it is not able when men do not choose to accept her services for it is only in those who are obedient to her that she displays her special virtue.
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