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It is better to die of hunger having lived without grief and fear, than to live with a troubled spirit, amid abundance.

Epictetus

Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
EPICTETUS

Account Giving Inspirational Life Positive
All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
EPICTETUS

Acceptance Heaven Life Man Religion Tolerance
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.
EPICTETUS

Endure Introduce Life Opportunity Resource Strength
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
EPICTETUS

Company Friendship Key People Presence
If you wish to live a life free from sorrow, think of what is going to happen as if it had already happened.
EPICTETUS

Freedom Inspirational Let Go Life Live Sorrow
Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.
EPICTETUS

Goodness Inspirational Life Seek Wisdom Yourself
The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
EPICTETUS

Going Man Philosophy Wisdom World
Freedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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Believe Beyond Control Freedom Happiness Win
We can’t control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character.
EPICTETUS

Character Control Effort Impression
First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
EPICTETUS

Goodness Learning Manner Speak
You have been given your own work to do. Get to it right now, do your best at it, and don’t be concerned with who is watching you. Create your own merit.
EPICTETUS

Concern Creation Giving Motivational Watch Work
Renew every day your conversation with God: Do this even in preference to eating. Think more often of God than you breathe.
EPICTETUS

Breathe Conservation Eat God Preference Thinking
If you seek Truth, you will not seek to gain a victory by every possible means; and when you have found Truth, you need not fear being defeated.
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Defeat Fear Gain Seek Truth Victory
I laugh at those who think they can damage me. They do not know who I am, they do not know what I think, they cannot even touch the things which are really mine and with which I live.
EPICTETUS

Attitude Damage Laugh Live Thinking
When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it; you can either accept it or resent it.
EPICTETUS

Acceptance Attitude Happen Ignorance Power
Demand not that things happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do, and you will go on well.
EPICTETUS

Demand Happen Inspirational Satisfaction

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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