It is not things that disturb us, but our opinions about things.

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  It is not he who reviles you or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion about these things as being insulting.

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  It is the act of an ill-instructed man to blame others for his own bad condition; of one who has begun to be instructed, to lay the blame on himself; and of one whose instruction is completed, neither to blame another nor himself.

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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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  Do not call yourself a philosopher; show your principles by your actions.

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