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When something happens, the on...

When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it. It is not the things that disturb us, but our interpretation of their significance. Things and people are not what we wish them to be nor are they what they seem to be. They are what they are.

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You become what you give your ...

You become what you give your attention to...If you
yourself don't choose what thoughts and images you expose
yourself to, someone else will, and their motives may not be
the highest.

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Remember that you ought to beh...

Remember that you ought to behave in life as you would at a banquet. As something is being passed around it comes to you; stretch out your hand, take a portion of it politely. It passes on; do not detain it. Or it has not come to you yet; do not project your desire to meet it, but wait until it comes in front of you. So act toward children, so toward a wife, so toward office, so toward wealth.

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A guide, on finding a man who ...

A guide, on finding a man who has lost his way, brings him back to the right pathЂ'he does not mock and jeer at him and then take himself off. You also must show the unlearned man the truth, and you will see that he will follow. But so long as you do not show it him, you should not mock, but rather feel your own incapacity.

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These reasonings are unconnect...

These reasonings are unconnected: 'I am richer than you, therefore I am better'; 'I am more eloquent than you, therefore I am better.' The connection is rather this: 'I am richer than you, therefore my property is greater than yours;' 'I am more eloquent than you, therefore my style is better than yours.' But you, after all, are neither property nor style.

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If a person had delivered up y...

If a person had delivered up your body to some passer-by, you would certainly be angry. And do you feel no shame in delivering up your own mind to any reviler, to be disconcerted and confounded?

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And be silent for the most par...

And be silent for the most part, or else make only the most necessary remarks, and express these in few words. But rarely, and when occasion requires you to talk, talk, indeed, but about no ordinary topics. Do not talk about gladiators, or horseraces, or athletes, or things to eat or drink - topics that arise on all occasions; but above all, do not talk about people, either blaming, or praising, or comparing them.

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When we act pugnaciously, and ...

When we act pugnaciously, and injuriously, and angrily, and rudely, to what level have we degenerated? To the level of the wild beasts. Well, the fact is that some of us are wild beasts of a larger size, while others are little animals, malignant and petty.

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You may fetter my leg, but Zeu...

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

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If any be unhappy, let him rem...

If any be unhappy, let him remember that he is unhappy by reason of himself alone. For God hath made all men to enjoy felicity and constancy of good.

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You can be invincible, if you ...

You can be invincible, if you enter into no contest in which it is not in your power to conquer.

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Wherever any one is against hi...

Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.

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Make it your business to draw ...

Make it your business to draw out the best in others by being an exemplar yourself.

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If you think you control thing...

If you think you control things that are in the control of others, you will lament. You will be disturbed and you will blame both gods and men.

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No man is free who is not mast...

No man is free who is not master of himself... Is freedom anything else than the power of living as we choose?

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Be not swept off your feet by ...

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.

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Man is not fully free unless h...

Man is not fully free unless he is master of himself.

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When any person treats you ill...

When any person treats you ill or speaks ill of you, remember that he does this or says this because he thinks it is his duty. It is not possible, then, for him to follow that which seems right to you, but that which seems right to himself.

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When you have decided that a t...

When you have decided that a thing ought to be done and are doing it, never avoid bein seen doing it, though many shall form an unfavorable opinion about it. For if it is not right to do it, avoid doing the thing; but if it is right, why are you afraid of those who shall find fault wrongly?

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Neither the victories of the O...

Neither the victories of the Olympic Games nor those achieved in battles make the man happy. The only victories that make him happy are those achieved against himself. Temptations and tests are combats. You have beaten one, two, many times; still fight. If you defeat at last you will be happy your entire life, as if you have always defeated.

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