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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

The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
– Seneca the Younger

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