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• To a reasonable creature, that alone is insupportable which is unreasonable
  but everything reasonable may be supported. -- Epictetus (c....
• There are some things which men confess with ease, and others with difficulty.
  -- Epictetus (c. 60 AD) -- Of Inconsistency, -- Discourses, Book ii, Chap. xxi...
• Since it is Reason which shapes and regulates all other things, it ought not itself to be left in disorder.
  -- Epictetus (c. 60 AD) -- Discourses, Chap. xvii...
• Everything has two handles; the one soft and manageable, the other such as will not endure to be touched.
  If then your brother do you an injury, do not take it by the hot hard handle, by representing to yourself all the aggravating circumstances of the fac...
• In every affair consider what precedes and what follows, and then undertake it.
  -- Epictetus (c. 60 AD) -- That Everything is to be undertaken with Circumspection, -- Discourses, Book iii, Chap....
• Everything, saith Epictetus, hath two handles,--the one to be held by, the other not.
  -- Robert Burton (1577-1640) -- The Anatomy of Melancholy, Part ii, Sect. 2, Memb. 3...
• Any one thing in the creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to an humble and grateful mind.
  -- Epictetus (c. 60 AD) -- Discourses, Chap. xvi...
• Yet God hath not only granted these faculties, by which we may bear every event without being depressed or broken by i
  but like a good prince and a true father, hath placed their exercise above restraint, compulsion, or hindrance, and wholly without our own control....
• 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....