Demand not that events should happen as you wish; but wish them to happen as they do happen, and you will go on well.
EpiktetSource: The Enchiridion, chapter 8 (1948)
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Demand not that events should happen as you wish; but wish them to happen as they do happen, and you will go on well.
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