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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...
• There are some things which men confess with ease, and others with difficulty.
  -- Epictetus (c. 60 AD) -- Of Inconsistency, -- Discourses, Book ii, Chap. xxi...
• First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
  -- Epictetus (c. 60 AD) -- Concerning such as read and dispute ostentatiously, -- Discourses, Book iii, Chap....
• Reason is not measured by size or height, but by principle.
  -- Epictetus (c. 60 AD) -- Discourses, Book i, Chap. xii...
• 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...
• It is not reasonings that are wanted now; for there are books stuffed full of stoical reasonings.
  -- Epictetus (c. 60 AD) -- Of Courage, -- Discourses, Book i, Chap. xxix...
• Every art and every faculty contemplates certain things as its principal objects.
  -- Epictetus (c. 60 AD) -- Discourses, Book i, Chap. xx...
• To a reasonable creature, that alone is insupportable which is unreasonable
  but everything reasonable may be supported. -- Epictetus (c....