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From Epictetus: “We are not privy to the stories behind people’s actions, so we should be patient with others and suspend judgement of them, recognizing the limits of our understanding.

From Marcus Aurelius: “Everything is brought about by nature, not by anything beyond it, or within it, or apart from it.”

From Marcus Aurelius: “Look into their minds, at what the wise do and what they don’t.”

From Seneca: “Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.”

From Marcus Aurelius: “Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.”

From Marcus Aurelius: “The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.”

From Marcus Aurelius: “Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.”

From Marcus Aurelius: “The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”

From Marcus Aurelius: “No matter what anyone says or does, my task is to be good. Like gold or emerald or purple repeating to itself, ‘No matter what anyone says or does, my task is to be emerald, my color undiminished.’”