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Let silence be your general rule or say only what is necessary and in few words.

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Epictetus
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Epictetus of Hierapolis
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When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it. It is not the things that disturb us, but our interpretation of their significance. Things and people are not what we wish them to be nor are they what they seem to be. They are what they are.
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What is it to be a philosopher? Is it not to be prepared against events?
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If someone irritates you, it is only your own response that is irritating you. Therefore, when anyone seems to be provoking you, remember that it is only your judgment of the incident that provokes you. -
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As in walking it is your great care not to run your foot upon a nail, or to tread awry, and strain your leg so let it be in all the affairs of human life, not to hurt your mind or offend your judgment. And this rule, if observed carefully in all your deportment, will be a mighty security to you in your undertakings.
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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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Everything has two handles,-one by which it may be borne another by which it cannot.
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Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.
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Things themselves don't hurt or hinder us. Things simply are what they are. How we view these things is another matter.People think what they will think it is of no concern to us.
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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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Some things are in our control and others not. Things in our control are opinion, pursuit, desire, aversion, and, in a word, whatever are our own actions. Things not in our control are body, property, reputation, command, and, in one word, whatever are not our own actions.
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Exceed due measure, and the most delightful things become the least delightful.
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An ignorant person is inclined to blame others for his own misfortune. To blame oneself is proof of progress. But the wise man never has to blame another or himself.
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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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Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
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All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
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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 things seem to have reached that stage, merely say “I won’t play any longer”, and take your departure but if you stay, stop lamenting.
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Every place is safe to him who lives with justice.
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Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them
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