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Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
Attributed
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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
Meditations
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Confine yourself to the present.
Meditations 7.29
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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
Meditations 4.3
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As long as you live, keep learning how to live.
Letters from a Stoic 76.3
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It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
Letters from a Stoic 2.6
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No man was ever wise by chance.
Letters from a Stoic 76.6
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If you wish to improve, be content to appear clueless or stupid in extraneous matters.
Enchiridion 13
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One could not find a cure for grief, or anger, or misfortune, other than reason.
Lectures 6
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If I had followed the multitude, I should not have studied philosophy.
Fragment, in Diogenes Laertius 7.183