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Nicopolis · Epirus · 89 AD

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I was passed over for a promotion I thought I had earned.
Can you do your work well tomorrow? Then what has been taken from you? A title. An opinion in another man's mind. Neither was yours.
Discourses IV.1.81
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"Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish; but wish the things which happen to be as they are, and you will have a tranquil flow of life."
Epictetus · Enchiridion · Chapter 8

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