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Always remember what is your own, and what belongs to another; and you will not be disturbed.

Does it seem to you so small and worthless a thing to be good and happy?

If a man is unhappy, remember that his unhappiness is his own fault; for God has made all men to be happy, to be free from perturbations.

If he did not want something which is not in his power, how could he be anxious?

In my opinion no man has had a more profitable difficulty than you have had, if you choose to make use of it as an athlete would deal with a young antagonist.

It is circumstances (difficulties) which show what men are.

It is not possible that what is by nature free can be disturbed by anything else, or hindered by any other thing than by itself.

Most of us are afraid of mortification of the body, and would contrive all means to avoid such a thing, but we care not about the soul’s mortification.

Therefore when a difficulty falls upon you, remember that God, like a trainer of wrestlers, has matched you with a rough young man.

Why then are you anxious about that which belongs to others?

Will you not go back, and you will see clearer when you have laid aside fear?

Wretch, you are carrying about a god with you, and you know it not.

Men are disturbed not by the things which happen, but by the opinions about the things

Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish; but wish the things which happen to be as they are, and you will have a tranquil flow of life

I am by Nature made for my own good; not for my own evil.

If you have assumed a character beyond your strength, you have both played a poor figure in that, and neglected one that is within your powers.

Bring now, O Zeus, any difficulty that thou pleasest, for I have means given to me by thee and powers for honoring myself through the things which happen.

Do not admire your clothes, and then you will not be angry with the thief.

Have you anything better or greater to see than the sun, the moon, the stars, the whole earth, the sea?

If I have set my admiration on the poor body, I have given myself up to be a slave; if on my poor possessions, I also make myself a slave.

Keep by every means what is your own; do not desire what belongs to others.

See that you do nothing like a sheep; but if you do, in this case also the man is lost.

Therefore we ought to exercise ourselves in small things, and beginning with them to proceed to the greater.

No man can rob us of our Will--no man can lord it over that!