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On Fate
Amor fati — on providence, acceptance, and the love of what happens.
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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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Fragments (paraphrase after Epictetus)
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Happiness is the art of living according to nature.
Fragment, in Stobaeus 2.75
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If you are not certain what will happen, prepare for all possibilities.
Meditations (attrib.)
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The universe is transformation; life is opinion.
Meditations 4.3
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Everything existing is in a manner the seed of what will emerge from it.
Meditations 4.36
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All this is part of the price of being born.
Consolation to Marcia 10.6
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Enchiridion 15