A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
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It is your own convictions which compels you that is, choice compels choice.Epictetus
So when the crisis is upon you, remember that God, like a trainer of wrestlers, has matched you with a tough and stalwart antagonistthat you may prove a victor at the Great Games. Yet without toil or sweat this may not be.
Epictetus
Any person capable of angering you becomes your master. He can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.
Epictetus
Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
Epictetus
It is not he who gives abuse that affronts, but the view that we take of it as insulting so that when one provokes you it is your own opinion which is provoking.
Epictetus
When you have closed your doors, and darkened your room, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone God is within, and your genius is withinand what need have they of light to see what you are doing.
Epictetus
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