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“Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.”

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This is the practical summary of the first chapter of the Enchiridion, whose central distinction is between what is in our power and what is not. Everything else in Stoic ethics follows from keeping the two apart.

Source: Enchiridion

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