Stoic Wisdom

Be still, sad heart! and cease repining; / Behind the clouds is the sun still shining; / Thy fate is the common fate of all, / Into each life some rain must fall.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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— Epictetus
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— Seneca
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— Epictetus

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