First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
Epictetus

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It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.

If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible.

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.