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“Circumstances don't make the man, they only reveal him to himself.”

By Epictetus

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“To be like the rock that the waves keep crashing over. It stands unmoved and the raging of the sea falls still around it.”

By Marcus Aurelius

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“Do not let the future disturb you, for you will arrive there, if you arrive, with the same reason you now apply to the present.”

By Marcus Aurelius

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“Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.”

By Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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“Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life.”

By Marcus Aurelius

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“How unlucky I am that this should happen to me.

But not at all.

Perhaps, say how lucky I am that I am not broken by what has happened, and I am not afraid of what is about to happen.

For the same blow might have stricken anyone, but not many would have absorbed it without capitulation and complaint.”

By Marcus Aurelius

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“For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose.”

By Marcus Aurelius

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“It is more necessary for the soul to be cured than the body; for it is better to die than to live badly.”

By Epictetus

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“It is more civilized to make fun of life than to bewail it.”

By Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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“Many people who have progressively lowered their personal standards in an attempt to win social acceptance and life's comforts bitterly resent those of philosophical bent who refuse to compromise their spiritual ideals and who seek to better themselves.”

By Epictetus

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“Other people's views and troubles can be contagious. Don't sabotage yourself by unwittingly adopting negative, unproductive attitudes through your associations with others.”

By Epictetus

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“Humans have come into being for the sake of each other, so either teach them, or learn to bear them.”

By Marcus Aurelius

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“Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.”

By Epictetus

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“Everything of the body is a river.

Everything of the soul is dream and vapour.

Life is war and the abode of a stranger.

The only fame after death is oblivion.”

By Marcus Aurelius

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“What else did you expect from helping someone out? Isn't it enough that you've done what your nature demands? You want a salary for it too? As if your eyes expected a reward for seeing, or your feet for walking. That's what they were made for.”

By Marcus Aurelius

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“You may fetter my leg, but Zeus himself cannot get the better of my free will.”

By Epictetus

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“When you need encouragement, think of the qualities the people around you have: this one's energy, that one's modesty, another's generosity, and so on. Nothing is as encouraging as when virtues are visibly embodied in the people around us, when we're practically showered with them. It's good to keep this in mind.”

By Marcus Aurelius

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“We have it in our power to begin the world over again.” – Thomas Paine

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“Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.”

By Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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