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• 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....
• Were I a nightingale, I would act the part of a nightingale
  were I a swan, the part of a swan. -- Epictetus (c. 60 AD) -- Discourses, Book i, Chap. xvi...
• Dare to look up to God and say, "Make use of me for the future as Thou wilt.
  I am of the same mind; I am one with Thee. I refuse nothing which seems good to Thee....
• The essence of good and evil is a certain disposition of the will.
  -- Epictetus (c. 60 AD) -- Of Courage, -- Discourses, Book i, Chap. xxix...
• Difficulties are things that show what men are. -- Epictetus (c.
  60 AD) -- Discourses, Book i, Chap. xxiv...
• Reason is not measured by size or height, but by principle.
  -- Epictetus (c. 60 AD) -- Discourses, Book i, Chap. xii...
• The materials of action are variable, but the use we make of them should be constant.
  -- Epictetus (c. 60 AD) -- How Nobleness of Mind may be consistent with Prudence, -- Discourses, Book ii, Chap....
• 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....
• No great thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig.
  If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time....