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In trying to please other people, we find ourselves misdirected toward what lies outside our sphere of influence. In doing so, we lose our hold on our life’s purpose.
– Epictetus

You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
– Seneca the Younger

The intellect must not be kept at consistent tension, but diverted by pastimes…. The mind must have relaxation, and will rise stronger and keener after recreation.
– Seneca the Younger

We all carry the seeds of greatness within us, but we need an image as a point of focus in order that they may sprout.
– Epictetus

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