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• When one maintains his proper attitude in life, he does not long after externals.
  What would you have, O man? -- Epictetus (c. 60 AD) -- Discourses, Book i, Chap. xxi...
• Why, then, do you walk as if you had swallowed a ramrod?
  -- Epictetus (c. 60 AD) -- Discourses, Book i, Chap. xxi...
• 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....
• In every affair consider what precedes and what follows, and then undertake it.
  -- Epictetus (c. 60 AD) -- That Everything is to be undertaken with Circumspection, -- Discourses, Book iii, Chap....
• When you have shut your doors, and darkened your room, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone
  but God is within, and your genius is within,--and what need have they of light to see what you are doing?...
• Difficulties are things that show what men are. -- Epictetus (c.
  60 AD) -- Discourses, Book i, Chap. xxiv...
• Who is there whom bright and agreeable children do not attract to play and creep and prattle with them?
  -- Epictetus (c. 60 AD) -- Concerning a Person whom he treated with Disregard, -- Discourses, Book ii, Chap....
• First say to yourself what you would be, then do what you have to do. -- Epictetu
• 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....