To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.
EPICTETUSHave the wisdom to know what cannot be changed, and the strength to change what can.
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Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness.
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He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
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Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.
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Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
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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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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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What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
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It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
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Try not to react merely in the moment. Pull back from the situation. Take a wider view. Compose yourself.
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The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
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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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The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
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Don’t demand or expect that events happen as you would wish them do. Accept events as they actually happen. That way, peace is possible.
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