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Throw me to the wolves and I will return leading the pack.
– Seneca the Younger

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
– Marcus Aurelius

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
– Marcus Aurelius

Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.
– Epictetus

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.
– Epictetus

When you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
– Epictetus

If you are distressed by something, it is due to your own estimate of it; and you have the power to change it at will.
– Marcus Aurelius

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.
– Marcus Aurelius

Watch yourself as you go about your daily business and later reflect on what you saw, trying to identify the sources of distress in your life and thinking about how to avoid that distress.
– Epictetus

Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
– Seneca the Younger