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Alexander and Caesar and Pompey. Compared with Diogenes, Heraclitus, Socrates? The philosophers knew the what, the why, the how. Their minds were their own.
The others? Nothing but anxiety and enslavement. 8.3

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Apply them constantly, to everything that happens:
Physics. Ethics. Logic. 8.13

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Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life.
Now take what’s left and live it properly. 7.56

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Or your sense of good and evil may differ from theirs. In which case they're misguided and deserve your compassion. Is that so hard?
7.26

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When people injure you, ask yourself what good or harm they thought would come of it. If you understand that, you'll feel sympathy rather than outrage or anger. Your sense of good and evil may be the same as theirs, or near it, in which case you have to excuse them...

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“those who sleep are also hard at work”—that they too collaborate in what happens
- Heraclitus

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The best revenge is not to be like that. 6.2

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I was once a fortunate man but at some point fortune abandoned me.
But true good fortune is what you make for yourself. Good fortune: good character, good intentions, and good actions. 5.37

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“To live with the gods.” And to do that is to show them that your soul accepts what it is given and does what the spirit requires—the spirit God gave each of us to lead and guide us, a fragment of himself. Which is our mind, our logos. 5.27

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i. Nothing can happen to me that isn’t natural.
ii. I can keep from doing anything that God and my own spirit don’t approve. No one can force me to.
5.10

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Not to feel exasperated, or defeated, or despondent because your days aren’t packed with wise and moral actions. But to get back up when you fail, to celebrate behaving like a human—however imperfectly—and fully embrace the pursuit that you’ve embarked on... 5.9

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“Our words and actions should not be like those of sleepers” (for we act and speak in dreams as well) “or of children copying their parents”—doing and saying only what we have been told. (4.46)

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... Then what should we work for? Only this: proper understanding; unselfish action; truthful speech. A resolve to accept whatever happens as necessary and familiar, flowing like water from that same source and spring. (4.33)

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choose not to be harmed - and you won't feel harmed. Don't feel harmed - and you haven't been. (4.7)