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Epictetus
Epictetus
106 AD·Nicopolis

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

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It is not things that disturb us, but our judgments about things. For example, death is nothing terrible, for if it were, it would have appeared so to Socrates; but the judgment that death is terrible — that is the terrible thing.

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