There is But One Way to Peace of Mind

by Paul Epps on 7 Jan 2012

There is but one way to peace of mind (keep this thought by you at dawn and in the daytime and at night) — to give up what is beyond your control, to count nothing your own, to surrender everything to heaven and fortune.

— Epictetus, Discourses, Book IV, Ch. 4

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