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Where do you suppose he got that high brow?

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Try to enjoy the great festival of life with other men.

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If you would be a good reader, read; if a writer, write.

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Why, then, do you walk as if you had swallowed a ramrod?

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Let no man think that he is loved by any who loveth none.

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Reason is not measured by size or height, but by principle.

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Question:Who is the rich man?
Epictetus:He who is content.

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

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Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

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What is death? A scary mask. Take it off-see, it doesn't bite.

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Of pleasures, those which occur most rarely give the most delight.

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The essence of good and evil is a certain disposition of the will.

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He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which is about God.

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Never look for your work in one place and your progress in another.

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If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

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Fortify thyself with contentment: that is an impregnable stronghold.

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A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.

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Choose the life that is noblest, for custom can make it sweet to thee.

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It is my business, to manage carefully and dexterously whatever happens

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Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.

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Refuse altogether to take an oath if you can, if not, as far as may be.

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What is it to be a philosopher? Is it not to be prepared against events?

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You are but an appearance, and not absolutely the thing you appear to be.

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Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

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First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

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He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses though he be not drunk.

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We ought to flee the friendship of the wicked, and the enmity of the good.

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The appearance of things to the mind is the standard of every action to man.

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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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No man is able to make progress when he is wavering between opposite things.

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