"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."

Stoicism, Philosophy, Happiness, Acceptance

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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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"Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands."

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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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"There are more things, Lucilius, likely to frighten us than there are to crush us; we suffer more often in imagination than in reality."

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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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Justin K. McFarlane Beau, Canadian Poet

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"Love only what befalls you and is spun for you by fate."

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"Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education."

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"The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil."

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"For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends."

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"We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names."

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