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It is no easy thing for a principle to become a man’s own unless each day he maintains it and works it out in his life.
-Epictetus

Be harsh with yourself at times.
– Seneca

Let us say what we feel, and feel what we say; let speech harmonize with life.
– Seneca

Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.
-Marcus Aurelius

A wrongdoer is often a man who has left something undone, not always one who has done something.
-Marcus Aurelius

All things are the same, familiar in enterprise, momentary in endurance, coarse in substance. All things now are as they were in the day of those whom we have buried.
-Marcus Aurelius

If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
-Epictetus

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.
-Epictetus

I laugh at those who think they can damage me. They do not know who I am, they do not know what I think, they cannot even touch the things which are really mine and with which I live.
-Epictetus

Take full account of what Excellencies you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them not.
-Marcus Aurelius