BY THEME
On Control
The dichotomy of control — what lies within our power, and what does not.
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Receive without pride, let go without attachment.
Meditations 8.33
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Consider that everything is opinion, and opinion is in thy power.
Meditations 12.22
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No one confines his unhappiness to the present.
Letters 5.8
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Letters 13.4
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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
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Meditations 6.52
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Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
Letters 27.2
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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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Nothing is so obstinate as its opposite — moderation.
Attributed via Plutarch, Sayings