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As Diogenes, the famous Cynic, once said, “It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.”

“This is the true athlete—the person in rigorous training against false impressions. Remain firm, you who suffer, don’t be kidnapped by your impressions! The struggle is great, the task divine—to gain mastery, freedom, happiness, and tranquility.” —EPICTETUS, DISCOURSES, 2.18.27–28

“Locate that yearning for more, better, someday and see it for what it is: the enemy of your contentment. Choose it or your happiness. As Epictetus says, the two are not compatible.” —Holiday

Let’s not let emotion get in the way of kathêkon, the simple, appropriate actions on the path to virtue. —Holiday

“There is nothing so certain in our fears that’s not yet more certain in the fact that most of what we dread comes to nothing.” —Seneca