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You can be happy if you know this secret: Some things are within your power to control and some things are not.
– Epictetus

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.
– Marcus Aurelius

The whole contains nothing that is not for its advantage. By remembering that I am part of such a whole, I shall be content with everything that happens.
– Marcus Aurelius

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

Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.
– Seneca the Younger

He is ungrateful who denies that he has received a kindness which has been bestowed upon him; he is ungrateful who conceals it; he is ungrateful who makes no return for it; most ungrateful of all is he who forgets it.
– Seneca the Younger

It’s time to stop being vague. If you wish to be an extraordinary person, if you wish to become wise, then you should explicitly identify the kind of person you aspire to become.
– Epictetus

Even the stoics agree that certainty is very hard to come at; that our assent is worth little, for where is infallibility to be found?
– Marcus Aurelius

My true Self is free. I cannot be contained.
– Marcus Aurelius

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
– Epictetus