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It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
Enchiridion
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First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
Discourses 3.23
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No man is free who is not master of himself.
Discourses
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Some things are up to us and some things are not up to us.
Enchiridion 1.1
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Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
Enchiridion 1.3
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Discourses 2.1
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Discourses 4.1
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If you wish to improve, be content to appear clueless or stupid in extraneous matters.
Enchiridion 13
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No great thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig.
Discourses 1.15.7
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Men are disturbed not by the things which happen, but by the opinions about the things.
Enchiridion 5