"What man can you show me who places any value on his time, who reckons the worth of each day, who understands that he is dying daily?"

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"A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment."

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"They have been spoken by Plato, spoken by Zeno, spoken by Chrysippus or by Posidonius, and by a whole host of Stoics as numerous as excellent. I shall show you how men can prove their words to be their own: it is by doing what they have been talking about."

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"It is best to endure what you cannot change."

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"We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life."

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"So he died by his own decision."

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"Do you desire another case"

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"Hope not without despair, despair not without hope."

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"If you are wise, mingle these two elements: do not hope without despair, or despair without hope."

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"“New friends, however, will not be the same.” No, nor will you yourself remain the same; you change with every day and every hour."

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"If you would escape your troubles, you need not another place but another personality. Perhaps you have reached Athens, or perhaps Rhodes; choose any state you fancy, how does it matter what its character may be. You will be bringing to it your own."

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"Socrates is reported to have replied, when a certain person complained of having received no benefit from his travels: “It serves you right"

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"The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live. And often this living nobly means that you cannot live long."

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"Accept in an unruffled spirit that which is inevitable."

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"Whoever complains about the death of anyone, is complaining that he was a man"

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"Pain he endures, death he awaits."

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"All the Good of mortals is mortal."

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"Don't ask for what you'll wish you hadn't got."

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"For no man is free who is a slave to his body."

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"Perhaps its destruction has been brought about only that it may be raised up again to a better destiny. Oftentimes a reverse has but made room for more prosperous fortune. Many structures have fallen only to rise to a greater height."

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