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For what is lacking now is not quibbles; nay, the books of the Stoics are full of quibbles.

οὐ γὰρ λογάριά ἐστι τὰ λείποντα νῦν, ἀλλὰ γέμει τὰ βιβλία τῶν Στωικῶν λογαρίων.

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For freedom is not acquired by satisfying yourself with what you desire, but by destroying your desire.

Although life is a matter of indifference, the use which you make of it is not a matter of indifference.

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

It is difficulties that show what men are.

For what is it that everyone is seeking? To live securely, to be happy, to do everything as they wish to do, not to be hindered, not to be subject to compulsion.

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