The one freedom no one can take from you is that of your own judgment.

Supports

Of all that happens to us, one part alone is truly in our power: not events, nor the body, nor the opinion of others, but the use we make of our impressions, our .
To pin your happiness on what does not depend on you is to entrust it to what can be taken away: fortune gives and takes back health, possessions, the people we love. Whoever hangs his peace on these lives hanging on what he does not control.
To turn your effort instead toward what depends on you is to build a freedom nothing external can touch: I can be chained, ruined, banished, but no one can make me judge that an evil reaches me if I do not consent to it.

Therefore So to focus your life on what depends on you is not to resign yourself, it is to win the one mastery that hangs on no circumstance.

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Deepenings

What is up to us

opens his with this division: some things are up to us, and others are not. Up to us are opinion, the impulse to act, desire and aversion; not up to us are the body, possessions, reputation. This is the .
Narrowing the scope of our expectations in this way meets : the less we cling to what we do not control, the less we expose ourselves to suffering from it.

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Put to the test

Objection

Problem

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