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A Philosopher's school is a Surgery: pain, not pleasure, you should have felt therein. For on entering none of you is whole. (Epictetus)
Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily. View quote
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No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage. View quote
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Ruin and recovery are alike from within. View quote
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What is learned without pleasure is forgotten without remorse. View quote
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What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are. View quote
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The good or ill of a man lies within his own will. View quote
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It is not he who gives abuse that affronts, but the view that we take of it as insulting so that when one provokes you it is your own opinion which is provoking. View quote
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It is the sign of a dull mind to dwell upon the cares of the body, to prolong exercise, eating and drinking, and other bodily functions. These things are best done by the way all your attention must be given to the mind. View quote
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Men are disturbed, not by things that happen, but by their opinion of things that happen. View quote
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God has made all men to be happy. (Epictetus)
He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which is about God. View quote
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It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it. View quote
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If you set your heart upon philosophy, you must straightway prepare yourself to be laughed at and mocked by many who will say Behold a philosopher arisen among us or How came you by that brow of scorn But do you cherish no scorn, but hold to those things which seem to you the best, as one set by God in that place. Remember too, that if you abide in those ways, those who first mocked you, the same shall afterwards reverence you but if you yield to them, you will be laughed at twice as much as before. View quote
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Demand not that events should happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do, and you will go on well. View quote
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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. View quote
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Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them. View quote
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If you wish to live a life free from sorrow, think of what is going to happen as if it had already happened. View quote
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When the idea of any pleasure strikes your imagination, make a just computation between the duration of the pleasure and that of the repentance that is likely to follow it. View quote
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Preach not to others what they should eat, but eat as becomes you and be silent. View quote
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If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit give it nothing which may tend to its increase. At first, keep quiet and count the days when you were not angry 'I used to be angry every day, then every other day next, every two, then every three days' and if you succeed in passing thirty days, sacrifice to the gods in thanksgiving. (Epictetus)
If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase. View quote
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Seek to be the purple thread in the long white gown. View quote
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Covetousness like jealousy, when it has taken root, never leaves a person, but with their life. Cowardice is the dread of what will happen. View quote
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Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast. View quote
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