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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

Life without the courage to die is slavery.
– Seneca the Younger

Do not seek external approval. Do not worry about anything outside of your control. The only things you command are your thoughts and actions. We choose our response. Stop aspiring to be anyone other than your own best self: for that does fall within your control.
– Epictetus

No one can keep a mask on long.
– Seneca the Younger

Philosophy is the art and law of life, and it teaches us what to do in all cases, and, like good marksmen, to hit the white at any distance.
– Seneca the Younger

Unremarkable lives are marked by the fear of not looking capable when trying something new.
– Epictetus