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It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous -- even death is terrible only if we fear it.
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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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What matters most is what sort of person you are becoming. Wise individuals care only about whom they are today and who they can be tomorrow.
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Never say about anything, "I have lost it," but only "I have given it back." Is your child dead? It has been given back. Is your wife dead? She has been returned.
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It is not so much what happens to you as how you think about what happens."
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Whoever wants to be free, therefore, let him not want or avoid anything that is up to others. Otherwise he will necessarily be a slave.
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Let thy speech of God be renewed day by day, aye, rather than thy meat and drink.
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When you have decided that a thing ought to be done, and are doing it, never shun being seen doing it, even though the multitude should be likely to judge the matter amiss. For if you are not acting rightly, shun the act itself; if rightly, however, why fear misplaced censure? (172).
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No man is disturbed by things, but by his opinion about things.
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Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.
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I am not eternity, but a man; a part of the whole, as an hour is of the day.
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Reason is not measured by size or height, but by principle.
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Contentment, as it is a short road and pleasant, has great delight and little trouble.
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Unremarkable lives are marked by the fear of not looking capable when trying something new.
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