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"Being a stoic does not mean being a robot. Being a stoic means remaining calm both at the height of pleasure and the depths of misery."
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"Striid andWthdraw into yourself. Our master-reason asks no more than to act justly, and thereby to achieve calm."
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"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."
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"Ahab still stood like an anvil, receiving every shock, but without the least quivering of his own."
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"She would only make me take my seat if I didn't act calm and Swiss about it all."
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"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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"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."
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"He never complained. He seemed to have no instinct for the making much of oneself that complaining requires."
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"I always say, if you must mount the gallows, give a jest to the crowd, a coin to the hangman, and make the drop with a smile on your lips."
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"Here is your great soul-the man who has given himself over to Fate; on the other hand, that man is a weakling and a degenerate who struggles and maligns the order of the universe and would rather reform the gods than reform himself."
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"For many men the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles it only changes them."
Wealth
"It is not manly to turn one's back on fortune."
Motivation
"Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for no wind is the right wind."
Purpose
"No man can live happily who regards himself alone who turns everything to his own advantage. Thou must live for another if thou wishest to live for thyself."
Ethics
"Not he who has little but he who wishes more is poor."
Contentment
"Wherever there is a human being there is an opportunity for a kindness."
Kindness
"It is for the superfluous things of life that men sweat."
Materialism
"Fire is the test of gold adversity of strong men."
Adversity
"We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres or a little money and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth and for the great benefits of our being our life health and reason we look upon ourselves as under no obligation."
Philosophy
"To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself."
Security
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