If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
EPICTETUSWhen 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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Don’t be concerned with other people’s impressions of you. They are dazzled and deluded by appearances. Stick with your purpose. This alone will strengthen your will and give your life coherence.
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It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
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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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We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.
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Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
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Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle.
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If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
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Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.
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There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will.
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Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
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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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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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The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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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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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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