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I say that virtue is more valuable than wealth to the same degree that eyes are more valuable than fingernails.

— Epictetus

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If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always and approach toward it.

— Epictetus

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

— Epictetus

Men are disturbed, not by things, but by the principles and notions which they form concerning things.

— Epictetus

Source: Enchiridion - 135

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