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• Whatever you would make habitual, practise it; and if you would not make a thing habitual, do not practise it, but habituate yourself to something else.
  -- Epictetus (c. 60 AD) -- How the Semblances of Things are to be combated, -- Discourses, Book ii, Chap....
• Be not hurried away by excitement, but say, "Semblance, wait for me a little.
  Let me see what you are and what you represent. Let me try you....
• Reckon the days in which you have not been angry. I used to be angry every day
  ow every other day; then every third and fourth day...
• Every art and every faculty contemplates certain things as its principal objects.
  -- Epictetus (c. 60 AD) -- Discourses, Book i, Chap. xx...
• Practise yourself, for heaven's sake, in little thing
  and thence proceed to greater. -- Epictetus (c. 60 AD) -- Discourses, Book i, Chap. xviii...
• There are some things which men confess with ease, and others with difficulty.
  -- Epictetus (c. 60 AD) -- Of Inconsistency, -- Discourses, Book ii, Chap. xxi...
• The appearance of things to the mind is the standard of every action to man.
  -- Epictetus (c. 60 AD) -- That we ought not to be angry with Mankind, -- Discourses, Book i, Chap....
• Difficulties are things that show what men are. -- Epictetus (c.
  60 AD) -- Discourses, Book i, Chap. xxiv...
• If what the philosophers say be true,--that all men's actions proceed from one source
  hat as they assent from a persuasion that a thing is so, and dissent from a persuasion that it is not, and suspend their judgment from a persuasion that it is uncertain,--so likewise they seek a thing from a persuasion that it is for their advantage....