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EPICTETUSNo man is free who is not master of himself.
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No man is free who is not master of himself.
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The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
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To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.
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Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
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You can be happy if you know this secret: Some things are within your power to control and some things are not.
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Renew every day your conversation with God: Do this even in preference to eating. Think more often of God than you breathe.
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Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.
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It takes more than just a good looking body. You’ve got to have the heart and soul to go with it.
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Every difficulty in life presents us with an opportunity to turn inward and to invoke our own submerged inner resources. The trials we endure can and should introduce us to our strengths.
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It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.
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Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
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The best place to get help is from yourself.
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First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
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Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
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Demand not that things happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do, and you will go on well.
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