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"If you have assumed any character beyond your strength, you have both demeaned yourself ill in that and quitted one which you might have supported."
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"If you let it bother you, it will bother you."
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"Change isn't always comfortable, but it always teaches us something of utmost importance " usually about ourselves " and we become better people for it."
"Open your arms to CHANGEbut don't let go of your VALUES."
"Know yourself and go in swinging, if it hurts when you hit, it might be real, too."
"It is necessary for everyone to develop their internal personality."
"A human being should learn to make decisions independently in order to achieve goals efficiently."
"An authentic and genuine life grows like a sturdy tree. And like a tree, it grows slowly. Every time you make a different and better decision, it grows a little. Every time you choose to do the right thing, even when nobody would find out otherwise, it grows a little. Every time you act with compassion, relinquish your right to strike back, take a courageous stand, admit fault or accept responsibility, it grows a little."
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"What you shun enduring yourself, attempt not to impose on others. You shun slavery- beware enslaving others! If you can endure to do that, one would think you had been once upon a time a slave yourself. For vice has nothing in common with virtue, nor Freedom with slavery."
"You know yourself what you are worth in your own eyes; and at what price you will sell yourself. For men sell themselves at various prices. This is why, when Florus was deliberating whether he should appear at Nero's shows, taking part in the performance himself, Agrippinus replied, 'Appear by all means.' And when Florus inquired, 'But why do not you appear?' he answered, 'Because I do not even consider the question.' For the man who has once stooped to consider such questions, and to reckon up the value of external things, is not far from forgetting what manner of man he is."
"You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself."
"Man, what are you talking about? Me in chains? You may fetter my leg but my will, not even Zeus himself can overpower."
"If you wish to live a life free from sorrow think of what is going to happen as if it had already happened."
"The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best."
"Philosophy does not claim to secure for us anything outside our control. Otherwise it would be taking on matters that do not concern it. For as wood is the material of the carpenter, and marble that of the sculptor, so the subject matter of the art of life is the life of the self."
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