Immediately prescribe some character and some form to yourself, which you shall observe both when you are alone and when you meet with men.

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  Do not spend too much time on the body; let your chief care be the mind.

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  Behave as at a banquet: take what is offered to you, and do not reach out for what has not yet come.

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  Take care of what you have been given as of something entrusted to you, not as something that is yours forever.

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  If you ever turn outward in order to please someone, know that you have lost your way.

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  Whoever wishes to be free, let him neither wish for anything nor avoid anything which depends on others.

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  Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish; but wish the things which happen to be as they are, and you will have a tranquil flow of life.

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