"The good or ill of a man lies within his own will."
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"Make it your business to draw out the best in others by being an exemplar yourself."
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"Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them."
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"Ruin and recovering are both from within."
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"Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress."
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"Some things are up to us [eph' hêmin] and some things are not up to us. Our opinions are up to us, and our impulses, desires, aversions–in short, whatever is our own doing. Our bodies are not up to us, nor are our possessions, our reputations, or our public offices, or, that is, whatever is not our own doing."
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"Don't just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating and reflective person. Books are the training weights of the mind. They are very helpful, but it would be a bad mistake to suppose that one has made progress simply by having internalized their contents." Translation by Sharon Lebell"
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"The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."
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"Happiness is an equivalent for all troublesome things."
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"The best place to get help is from yourself."
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"All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain."
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"Don't regard what anyone says of you, for this, after all, is no concern of yours."
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"Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public."
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"Fight against yourself, recover yourself to decency, to modesty, to freedom. And, in the first place, condemn your actions; but when you have condemned them, do not despair of yourself. For both ruin and recovery are from within."
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"Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?"
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"Wish that everything should come about just as it does."
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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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"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."
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"If anyone is unhappy, remember that his unhappiness is his own fault... Nothing else is the cause of anxiety or loss of tranquility except our own opinion."
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"The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going."
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