The present is the only thing of which a man can be deprived, if it is true that this is the only thing which he possesses, and that a man cannot lose a thing if he has it not.
Stoic philosophy, Roman Emperor
Meditations, Book 2, Section 14
c. 161-180 AD
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"Consider how much more pain is brought on us by the anger and vexation caused by such acts than by the acts themselves, at which we are angry and vexed."
Shocking"Fools! not to be able to reflect how many things a man may gain by means of not saying and doing what is useful to himself, and how few things by saying and doing what is useful to himself."
Shocking"The true way to render ourselves happy is to love what we ought and not to hate what we ought not."
Shocking"If a man is able to show me that I do not think or act right, I will gladly change; for I seek the truth, by which no man was ever injured. But he is injured who abides in his error and ignorance."
Shocking"The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury."
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