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The judgement that we are about to die is not oppressive; dying is not oppressive.
Discourses 2.1
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Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.
Fragments, in Stobaeus 1.22
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If you want any good, get it from yourself.
Discourses 1.29
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The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
Discourses (paraphrase)
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Fragments, in Aulus Gellius, Attic Nights 17.19
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Be silent for the most part, or speak only what is necessary, and in few words.
Enchiridion 33
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Enchiridion 15
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He is free who lives as he wishes to live.
Discourses 4.1.1
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A man cannot learn what he thinks he already knows.
Discourses 2.17.1