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By Epictetus
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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- The Works of Epictetus: The Enchiridion, or Manual (translated by Thomas Wentworth Higginson), 1866 · chapter VIII, p. 378
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- Little, Brown, and Company, Boston, 1866 (Higginson's translation, based on Elizabeth Carter's; copyright 1865)
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From the Enchiridion ("Manual"), chapter VIII, in Thomas Wentworth Higginson's English translation (Boston, 1866). Epictetus taught in Greek and wrote nothing himself. His student Arrian recorded his teaching and compiled the Enchiridion, around 135 CE, so this is Arrian's record in the translator's wording.