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  1. Epictetus _ Enchiridion

    Disease is an impediment to the body, but not to the will, unless the will itself chooses. Lameness is an impediment to the leg, but not to the will. And add this reflection on the occasion of everything that happens; for you will find it an impediment to something else, but not to yourself.
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  2. Epictetus _ Enchiridion

    Be free from grief not through insensibility like the irrational animals, nor through want of thought like the foolish, but like a man of virtue by having reason as the consolation of grief.
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  3. Epictetus _ Enchiridion

    Men are disturbed not by the things which happen, but by the opinions about the things:
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  4. Epictetus _ Enchiridion

    If you wish your house to be well managed, imitate the Spartan Lycurgus. For as he did not fence his city with walls, but fortified the inhabitants by virtue and preserved the city always free;35 so do you not cast around {your house} a large court and raise high towers, but strengthen the dwellers by good-will and fidelity and friendship, and then nothing harmful will enter it, not even if the whole band of wickedness shall array itself against it.
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  5. Epictetus _ Enchiridion

    Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.
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  6. Epictetus _ Enchiridion

    You will do the greatest services to the state, if you shall raise not the roofs of the houses, but the souls of the citizens: for it is better that great souls should dwell in small houses than for mean slaves to lurk in great houses.
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  7. Epictetus _ Enchiridion

    Epictetus being asked how a man should give pain to his enemy answered, By preparing himself to live the best life that he can.
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  8. Epictetus _ Enchiridion

    In banquets remember that you entertain two guests, body and soul: and whatever you shall have given to the body you soon eject: but what you shall have given to the soul, you keep always.
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  9. Epictetus _ Enchiridion

    These reasonings do not cohere: I am richer than you, therefore I am better than you; I am more eloquent than you, therefore I am better than you. On the contrary these rather cohere, I am richer than you, therefore my possessions are greater than yours: I am more eloquent than you, therefore my speech is superior to yours. But you are neither possession nor speech.
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  10. Epictetus _ Enchiridion

    It is better to do wrong seldom and to own it, and to act right for the most part, than seldom to admit that you have done wrong and to do wrong often.
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