But he urges us to acquire a constancy of character that will make it impossible for another to do you wrong. And to get that invulnerability, that inner invulnerability, requires mastering the ability to be continually conscious of whether you are dealing with something you control or something that in the last instance you do not control. The only good things of absolute value are those that lie within your own control. And they are relatively few: things like thought, impulse, our opinions, our desires, our aversions, what we conceive of, what we choose, and so on. Who is the invincible
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