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Wherever I go it will be well with me, for it was well with me here, not on account of the place, but of my judgments which I shall carry away with me, for no one can deprive me of these on the contrary, they alone are my property, and cannot be taken away, and to possess them suffices me wherever I am or whatever I do.
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A soul that makes virtue its companion is like an over-flowing well, for it is clean and pellucid, sweet and wholesome, open to all, rich, blameless and indestructible.
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No man is free who is not master of himself... Is freedom anything else than the power of living as we choose?
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Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems
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Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.
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With ills unending strives the putter off.
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Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control.
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What ought one to say then as each hardship comes? I was practicing for this, I was training for this.
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Silence is safer than speech.
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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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Envy is the antagonist of the fortunate.
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The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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Make it your business to draw out the best in others by being an exemplar yourself.
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Contentment, as it is a short road and pleasant, has great delight and little trouble.
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What is death? A scary mask. Take it off-see, it doesn't bite.
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People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.
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Every habit and faculty is preserved and increased by correspondent actions, as the habit of walking, by walking of running, by running.
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When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing?
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Do not so much be ashamed of that disgrace which proceeds from men's opinion as fly from that which comes from the truth.
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Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.
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