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If you choose, you are free; if you choose, you need blame no man--accuse no man. All things will be at once according to your mind and according to the Mind of God.
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Protect what belongs to you at all costs; don't desire what belongs to another.
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Adopt new habits yourself: consolidate your principles by putting them into practice.
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Tell yourself what you want to be, then act your part accordingly.
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Free is the person who lives as he wishes and cannot be coerced, impeded or compelled, whose impulses cannot be thwarted, who always gets what he desires and never has to experience what he would rather avoid.
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You should be especially careful when associating with one of your former friends or acquaintances not to sink to their level; otherwise you will lose yourself. If you are troubled by the idea that 'He'll think I'm boring and won't treat me the way he used to,' remember that everything comes at a price. It isn't possible to change your behavior and still be the same person you were before.
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We should realize that an opinion is not easily formed unless a person says and hears the same things every day and practises them in real life.
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Restrict yourself to choice and refusal; and exercise them carefully, with discipline and detachment.
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So don't make a show of your philosophical learning to the uninitiated, show them by your actions what you have absorbed.
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Be happy when you find that doctrines you have learned and analysed are being tested by real events. If you've succeeded in removing or reducing the tendency to be mean and critical, or thoughtless, or foul-mouthed, or careless, or nonchalant; if old interests no longer engage you, at least not to the same extent; then every day can be a feast day - today because you acquitted yourself well in one set of circumstances, tomorrow because of a..
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Is then the fruit of a fig-tree not perfect suddenly and in one hour, and would you possess the fruit of a man's mind in so short a time and so easily?
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If you wish it, you are free; if you wish it, you'll find fault with no one, you'll cast blame on no one, and everything that comes about will do so in accordance with your own will and that of God.
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When then any man assents to that which is false, be assured that he did not intend to assent to it as false, for every soul is unwillingly deprived of the truth, as Plato says; but the falsity seemed to him to be true.
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When someone is properly grounded in life, they shouldn't have to look outside themselves for approval.
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Epictetus has had a long-standing resonance in the United States; his uncompromising moral rigour chimed in well with Protestant Christian beliefs and the ethical individualism that has been a persistent vein in American culture. His admirers ranged from John Harvard and Thomas Jefferson in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau in the nineteenth. More recently, Vice-Admiral James Stockdale w..
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He who is discontented with what he has, and with what has been granted to him by fortune, is one who is ignorant of the art of living, but he who bears that in a noble spirit, and makes reasonable use of all that comes from it, deserves to be regarded as a good man.
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For I am not Eternity, but a human being--a part of the whole, as an hour is part of the day. I must come like the hour, and like the hour must pass!
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So if you like doing something, do it regularly; if you don't like doing something, make a habit of doing something different.
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In literature, too, it is not great achievement to memorize what you have read while not formulating an opinion of your own.
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For where you find unrest, grief, fear, frustrated desire, failed aversion, jealousy and envy, happiness has no room for admittance. And where values are false, these passions inevitably follow.
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Does anyone bathe hastily? Do not say that they do it ill, but hastily. Does anyone drink much wine? Do not say that they do ill, but that they drink a great deal. For unless you perfectly understand their motives, how should you know if they act ill? Thus you will not risk yielding to any appearances except those you fully comprehend.
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You will never have to experience defeat if you avoid contests whose outcome is outside your control.
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If you are told that such an one speaks ill of you, make no defense against what was said, but answer, "He surely knows not my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these only!"
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Isn't reading a kind of preparation for life?' But life is composed of things other than books. It is as if an athlete, on entering the stadium, were to complain that he's not outside exercising.This was the goal of your exercise, of your weights, your practice ring and your training partners.
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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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Conduct yourself in all matters, grand and public or small and domestic, in accordance with the laws of nature. Harmonizing your will with nature should be your utmost ideal.
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If you have assumed a character beyond your strength, you have both played a poor figure in that, and neglected one that is within your powers.
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who is your master? Whoever has authority over anything that you're anxious to gain or avoid.
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That is the way things are weighed and disagreements settled -- when standards are established. Philosophy aims to test and set such standards. And the wise man is advised to make use of their findings right way.
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Don't concern yourself with other people's business. It's his problem if he receives you badly. And you cannot suffer for another person's fault. So don't worry about the behavior of other.
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Why are you pestering me, pal? My own evils are enough for me.
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Those proficient praise no one, blame no one, and accuse no one. They say nothing concerning their self as being anybody or knowing anything.
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It is not events that disturb people, it is their judgements concerning them.
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Disease is an impediment to the body, but not to the will, unless the will itself chooses. Lameness is an impediment to the leg, but not to the will. And add this reflection on the occasion of everything that happens; for you will find it an impediment to something else, but not to yourself.
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Is you naturally entitled, then, to a good father? No, only to a father. Is
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Remember then that if you think the things which are by nature slavish to be free, and the things which are in the power of others to be your own, you will be hindered, you will lament, you will be disturbed, you will blame both gods and men: but if you think that only which is your own to be your own, and if you think that what is another's, as it really is, belongs to another, no man will ever compel you, no man will hinder you, you will ..
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Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish; but wish the things which happen to be as they are, and you will have a tranquil flow of life. IX
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Disease is an impediment to the body, but not to the will, unless the will itself chooses. Lameness is an impediment to the leg, but not to the will. And add this reflection on the occasion of everything that happens; for you will find it an impediment to something else, but not to yourself. X
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On the occasion of every accident (event) that befalls you, remember to turn to yourself and inquire what power you have for turning it to use.
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To the rational being only the irrational is unendurable, but the rational is endurable.
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Reason is not measured by size or height, but by principle.
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Were I a nightingale, I would act the part of a nightingale; were I a swan, the part of a swan.
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Practice yourself, for heaven's sake, in little things; and thence proceed to greater.
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Every art and every faculty contemplates certain things as its principal objects.
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