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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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"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."
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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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"He never complained. He seemed to have no instinct for the making much of oneself that complaining requires."
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"The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are."
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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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"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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"She would only make me take my seat if I didn't act calm and Swiss about it all."
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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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"Go to where you do not know what you do not know. That is where you will find all your opportunities."
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"Too much fame, money or alcohol can make you stupid."
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"If necessity is the mother of invention, then dissatisfaction must be its father."
Innovation

"A person with no enemies is a person with no personality."
Personality

"Success involves avoiding the lure of making excuses."
Achievement

"I would rather have someone say they hate me and mean it, than have someone say they love me and not."
Relationship

"Once you learn how to think you can teach yourself anything."
Education

"Success involves going to where others believe is too far."
Success

"A single thread of hope is stronger than all the chains that bind you."
Motivation

"Wisdom comes when you realize the pain, people, or problems life used to produce you now push you."
Insight
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