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Demand not that events should happen as you wish; but wish them to happen as they do happen.
Enchiridion 8
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Discourses 4.1.165
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Enchiridion 5 (paraphrase)
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Attach yourself to what is spiritually superior, regardless of what other people think or do.
Discourses 1.2
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Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.
Discourses 3.22
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Never depend on the admiration of others. There is no strength in it.
Discourses 3.24
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Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.
Discourses 2.24
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Preach not to others what they should eat, but eat as becomes you, and be silent.
Enchiridion 46
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To make the best of what is in our power, and take the rest as it occurs.
Discourses 1.1
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We are disturbed not by things, but by the views we take of them.
Enchiridion 5