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To bear trials with a calm mind robs misfortune of its strength and burden.
On the Happy Life 15.5
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The willing, destiny guides them. The unwilling, destiny drags them.
Letters 107.11 (after Cleanthes)
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Live now; believe me, it is wiser not to put off living till tomorrow.
Letters 101.10
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The fates guide the person who accepts them and hinder the person who resists them.
Letters 107.11
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Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other.
Letters 39.1
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Letters 13.4
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Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember.
Letters 78.15
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Letters 2.2
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Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.
Letters 101.10
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The life given us by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.
On the Shortness of Life 15