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Epictetus Quote - If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

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The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
EPICTETUS

Control Expectation Inspirational Life Value
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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Attention Belong Business Concern Focus True
Difficulty shows what men are.
EPICTETUS

Character Difficult Men One Liner
It is better to die of hunger having lived without grief and fear, than to live with a troubled spirit, amid abundance.
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Abundance Die Fear Hunger Live Trouble
When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it; you can either accept it or resent it.
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Acceptance Attitude Happen Ignorance Power
If you wish to live a life free from sorrow, think of what is going to happen as if it had already happened.
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Freedom Inspirational Let Go Life Live Sorrow
The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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Going Man Philosophy Wisdom World
Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control.
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Control Hold Inspirational Positive Stop True
Do not try to seem wise to others.
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Inspirational Life One Liner Try Wise
It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.
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Attitude Insult Let Go Opinion Philosophy Strike
Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
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Freedom Inspirational Live Right Satisfaction
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
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Company Friendship Key People Presence
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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Endure Introduce Life Opportunity Resource Strength
No man is free who is not master of himself.
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Freedom Himself Inspirational Master One Liner
Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
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Abandonment Break Up Let Go Togetherness Worth
It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
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Handle Happen Inspirational Matter Reaction
Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
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Explanation Express Philosophy
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
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Death Depression Fear Love Pain
Wisdom means understanding without any doubt that circumstances do not rise to meet our expectations. Events happen as they may. People behave as they will.
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Behaviour Circumstance Expectation People Understand Wisdom
In prosperity it is very easy to find a friend; but in adversity it is the most difficult of all things.
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Adversity Difficult Finding Friendship Prosperity
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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Breathe Conservation Eat God Preference Thinking
First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
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Believe Motivational Yourself
What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
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Attitude Concern Human Nature People Thinking
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
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Essense Happiness Inspirational Man Philosophy Possible
The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
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Happiness Liberty Life People Right Truth
We all dread a bodily paralysis, and would make use of every contrivance to avoid it; but none of us is troubled about a paralysis of the soul.
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Avoid Body Pralysis Soul Trouble
Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
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Anxiety Imagination Man Problem Worry

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