I won't bore you with a long introduction, let's get straight to it. These quotes are from Enchiridion a book by the stoic philosopher Epictetus.

"Some things are within our power and some are beyond our power"

"But for the present, altogether restrain desire. For if you desire any of the things not within your own power, you must necessarily be disappointed"

"Demand not that events should happen as you wish; but wish them to happen as they do happen, and you will go on well"

"Upon every accident, remember to turn toward yourself and inquire what faculty you have for its use."

"Never say of anything, "I have lost it," but, "I have restored it."

"If you would improve, be content to be thought foolish and dull with regard to externals."

"But if you wish not to be disappointed in your desires, that is in your own power."

"Do not yearn in desire toward it, but wait till it reaches you."

"Remember that you are an actor in a drama of such sort as the Author chooses. If short, then in a short one; if long, then in a long one."

"When you do anything from a clear judgment that it ought to be done"

"But what do I desire? To understand nature, and follow her."

"Whatever rules you have adopted, abide by them as laws and as if you would be impious to transgress them; and do not regard what anyone says of you, for this, after all, is no concern of yours."

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