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Choices Quote by Epictetus

“Don’t consent to be hurt and you won’t be hurt – this is a choice over which you have control” quote by Epictetus — Download Open image

“Don’t consent to be hurt and you won’t be hurt – this is a choice over which you have control”

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Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things, and then proceed to greater.

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Do not laugh much or often or unrestrainedly.

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We are not disturbed by what happens to us, but by our thoughts about what happens to us.

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As a man, casting off worn out garments taketh new ones, so the dweller in the body, entereth into ones that are new.

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If you would improve, submit to be considered wihout sense and foolish with respect to externals. Wish to be considered to know nothing; and…

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“For it is not death or pain that is to be feared, but the fear of pain or death.”

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What else can I do, a lame old man, but sing hymns to God? If I were a nightingale, I would do the nightingale's part; if I were a swan, I would do as a swan. But now I am a rational creature, and I ought to praise God. This is my work. I do it, nor will I desert…

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Of all the people who have affected my life and influenced the choices I've made, none has been more important than my father. I…

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When you have a choice, choose happy!

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Time hath not yet so dried this blood of mine, Nor age so eat up my invention, Nor fortune made such havoc of my…

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