Don't seek to have things happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do happen, and all will be well with you.
Stoic philosopher, former slave
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"It is better to die of hunger, exempt from grief and fear, than to live in affluence with perturbation."
Shocking"If you are grieved about anything external, it is not the thing itself that troubles you, but your judgment about it. And it is in your power to wipe out this judgment at any moment."
Shocking"It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live."
Controversial"It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor."
Controversial"Freedom and slavery, the one is the name of virtue, and the other of vice, and both are acts of the will."
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