8 — Stephen Walton.

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Don’t demand your own way. Instead, want things to turn out the way they do turn out. Then you can relax.

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Do not seek to have everything that happens happen as you wish, but wish for everything to happen as it actually does happen, and your life will be serene.

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8 — P.E. Matheson.

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Ask not that events should happen as you will, but let your will be that events should happen as they do, and you shall have peace.

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8 — George Long.

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Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish; but wish the things which happen to be as they are, and you will have a tranquil flow of life.

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8 — T.W. Rolleston.

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Do not seek to have all things happen as you would choose them, but rather choose them to happen as they do; and so shall the current of your life flow free.

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8 — T.W. Higginson.

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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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Don’t demand that things happen as you wish, but wish that they happen as they do happen, and you will go on well.

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8 — Epictetus.

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Μὴ ζήτει τὰ γινόμενα γίνεσθαι ὡς θέλεις, ἀλλὰ θέλε τὰ γινόμενα ὡς γίνεται καὶ εὐροήσεις.

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