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March 13th: One Day It Will All Make Sense
“Whenever you find yourself blaming providence, turn it around in your mind and you will see that what has happened is in keeping with reason.”
—Epictetus, Discourses, 3.17.1
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March 11th: Living Without Restriction
“The unrestricted person, who has in hand what they will in all events, is free. But anyone who can be restricted, coerced, or pushed into something against what they will is a slave.”
—Epictetus, Discourses, 4.1.128b–129a
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Success is counted sweetest;
By those who ne’er succeed.
— Emily Dickinson
March 10th: Find Yourself a Cato
“We can remove most sins if we have a witness standing by as we are about to go wrong. The soul should have someone it can respect, by whose example it can make its inner sanctum more inviolable. Happy is the person who can improve others, not only when present, but even when in their thoughts!”
—Seneca, Moral Letters, 11.9
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So don’t worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will bring its own worries. Today’s trouble is enough for today.
— Jesus Christ
March 8th: Don’t Unintentionally Hand Over Your Freedom
“If a person gave away your body to some passerby, you’d be furious. Yet you hand over your mind to anyone who comes along, so they may abuse you, leaving it disturbed and troubled—have you no shame in that?”
—Epictetus, Enchiridion, 28
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You can easily judge a character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
March 7th: Don’t Trust the Senses
“Heraclitus called self-deception an awful disease and eyesight a lying sense.”
—Diogenes Laertius, Lives Of The Eminent Philosophers, 9.7
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March 6th: Don’t Tell Yourself Stories
“In public avoid talking often and excessively about your accomplishments and dangers, for however much you enjoy recounting your dangers, it’s not so pleasant for others to hear about your affairs.”
—Epictetus, Enchiridion, 33.14
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Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
— Epictetus
Life is but a day; a fragile dew-drop on its perilous way
From a tree’s summit.
— John Keets
March 5th: Cutting Back on the Costly
“So, concerning the things we pursue, and for which we vigorously exert ourselves, we owe this consideration—either there is nothing useful in them, or most aren’t useful. Some of them are superfluous, while others aren’t worth that much. But we don’t discern this and see them as free, when they cost us dearly.”
—Seneca, Moral Letters, 42.6
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You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.
— Dale Carnegie