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"It is unreasonable to think we can earn rewards without being willing to pay their true price. It is always our choice whether or not we wish to pay the price for life's rewards."
"No one who is in a state of fear or sorrow or tension is free, but whosoever is delivered from sorrows or fears or anxieties is at the same time delivered from servitude."
"It is difficulties that show what men are."
"When your thoughts, words, and deeds form a seamless fabric, you streamline your efforts and thus eliminate worry and dread."
"We do not choose our own parts in life, and have nothing to do with those parts. Our duty is confined to playing them well."
"Not things, but opinions about things, trouble men."
"Be not swept off your feet by the vividness of the impression, but say, "Impression, wait for me a little. Let me see what you are and what you represent. Let me try you.""
"If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please."
"If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it."
"You may fetter my leg, but Zeus himself cannot get the better of my free will."
"If a man is unhappy, remember that his unhappiness is his own fault, for God made all men to be happy."
"Man is troubled not by events, but by the meaning he gives them."
"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."
"I am always content with what happens; for I know that what God chooses is better than what I choose."
"If I can acquire money and also keep myself modest and faithful and magnanimous, point out the way, and I will acquire it."
"Be free from grief not through insensibility like the irrational animals, nor through want of thought like the foolish, but like a man of virtue by having reason as the consolation of grief."
"In the long run, every man will pay the penalty for this own misdeeds."
"We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time."
"In prosperity it is very easy to find a friend; but in adversity it is the most difficult of all things."
"Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit."