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Choose rather to punish your appetites than to be punished by them.
109
No one is free who commands not himself.
110
The vine bears three clusters: the first of pleasure, the second of intoxication, the third of outrage.
111
Do not talk much over wine to show your learning, for your discourse will be unpleasing.
112
He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses; and though he be not drunk, he has exceeded moderation.
113
Let discourse of God be renewed every day more surely than our food.
114
Think of God oftener than you breathe.
115
If you always remember that God stands by as a witness of whatever you do, either in soul or body, you will never err, either in your prayers or actions, and you will have God abiding with you.
116
As it is pleasant to view the sea from the shore, so it is pleasant to one who has escaped, to remember his past labors.
117
Law aims to benefit human life; but it cannot, when men themselves choose to suffer, for it manifests its proper virtue on condition of obedience.
118
As physicians are the preservers of the sick, so are the laws, of the injured.
119
The justest laws are the truest.
120
It is decent to yield to a law, to a ruler, and to a wiser man.
121
Things done contrary to law are to be regarded as undone.
122
In prosperity it is very easy to find a friend; in adversity, nothing is so difficult.
123
Time delivers fools from grief; and reason, wise men.
124
He is a man of sense who does not grieve for what he has not, but rejoices in what he has.
125
Epictetus being asked how a person might grieve his enemy, answered, By doing as well as possible himself.
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Let no wise man estrange himself from the government of the state; for it is both wicked to withdraw from being useful to the needy, and cowardly to give way to the worthless. For it is foolish to choose rather to be governed ill than to govern well.
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Nothing is more becoming a ruler than to despise no one, nor be insolent, but to preside over all impartially.
