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Stop aspiring to be anyone other than your own best self: for that does fall within your control.
-Epictetus

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
-Marcus Aurelius

If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-Marcus Aurelius

The acquisition of riches has been to many not an end to their miseries, but a change in them: The fault is not in the riches, but the disposition.
-Seneca

Stick with your purpose. Do not seek external approval. Do not worry about anything outside of your control. The only things you command are your thoughts and actions. We choose our response.
-Epictetus

No man is happy who does not think himself so.
-Marcus Aurelius

Our anger and annoyance are more detrimental to us than the things themselves which anger or annoy us.
-Marcus Aurelius

When ever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.
-Seneca

Freedom and happiness come from understanding – and working with – our limits. Begin at once a program of self-mastery.
-Epictetus

Give yourself a gift: the present moment.
-Marcus Aurelius