It is better to die of hunger having lived without grief and fear, than to live with a troubled spirit, amid abundance.
EPICTETUSIf you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
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Freedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
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Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness.
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Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control.
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Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
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Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
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Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
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The best place to get help is from yourself.
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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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All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
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If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
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Only the educated are free.
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Do not try to seem wise to others.
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Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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