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"Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands."
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"Someone has to be stoic, for the sake of, in spite of, and in the face of all those who are, not. Someone, has to be serious. Someone has to choose to forgo choice, so that there is an option left for others to consider. Everyone can't be, someone."
"Whatever this is that I am, it is a little flesh and breath, and the ruling part. Throw away thy books; no longer distract thyself: it is not allowed; but as if thou wast now dying, despise the flesh; it is blood and bones and a network, a contexture of nerves, veins, and arteries. See the breath also, what kind of a thing it is, air, and not always the same, but every moment sent out and again sucked in. The third then is the ruling part: consider thus: Thou art an old man; no longer let this be a slave, no longer be pulled by the strings like a puppet to unsocial movements, no longer be either dissatisfied with thy present lot, or shrink from the future."
"My dear Scipio and Laelius. Men, of course, who have no resources in themselves for securing a good and happy life find every age burdensome. But those who look for all happiness from within can never think anything bad which Nature makes inevitable."
"If we live we live if we die we die if we suffer we suffer if we are terrified we are terrified. There is no problem about it."
"Do not disturb yourself by picturing your life as a whole; do not assemble in your mind the many and varied troubles which have come to you in the past and will come again in the future, but ask yourself with regard to every present difficulty: 'What is there in this that is unbearable and beyond endurance?' You would be ashamed to confess it! And then remind yourself that it is not the future or what has passed that afflicts you, but always the present, and the power of this is much diminished if you take it in isolation and call your mind to task if it thinks that it cannot stand up to it when taken on its own."
"Love only what befalls you and is spun for you by fate."
"Worrying about things you cannot control is folly. Focus only on those few things you have any control over, and your life becomes much simpler."
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"The conditions of conquest are always easy. We have but to toil awhile endure awhile believe always and never turn back."
"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare it is because we do not dare that they are difficult."
"Unhappy is the man though he rule the world who doesn't consider himself supremely blessed."
"A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand."
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