Happiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing.
EPICTETUSKnow you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?
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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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The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
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If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
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No matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person.
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Have the wisdom to know what cannot be changed, and the strength to change what can.
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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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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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Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
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Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.
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It is more necessary for the soul to be cured than the body; for it is better to die than to live badly.
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Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?
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Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.
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It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.
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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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Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
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