Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
Stoic philosopher, former slave
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"If you want to be a writer, write."
Controversial"Control your perceptions. Direct your actions properly. Accept what is outside your control. Willingly do what needs to be done."
Strange & Unusual"If you are struck by the appearance of any promised pleasure, guard yourself against being carried away by it; but let this thought wait for you, 'How long will it last, and then how much remorse and …"
Controversial"Some things are in our control and others are not. Things in our control are opinion, pursuit, desire, aversion, and, in a word, whatever are our own actions. Things not in our control are body, prope…"
Strange & Unusual"What, then, is the fruit of these doctrines? It is the same as that of a vine: leaves, then a blossom, then a ripe cluster. So here, first an appearance, then an impulse, then an act. And the fruit is…"
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