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Epictetus
: It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
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Surprizes are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.
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The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
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Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment.
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Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.
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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.
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Who Rebels? Who rises in arms? Rarely the slave, but almost always the oppressor turned slave.
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I cannot be fired. Slaves have to be sold.
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Abraham H Maslow :
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What shall we think of a well-adjusted slave?
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If we are not represented, we are slaves.
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He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
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There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
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It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
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The good or ill of a man lies within his own will.
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We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.
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First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
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Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
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It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.
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Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things, and then proceed to greater.
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First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
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