Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
EPICTETUSIn prosperity it is very easy to find a friend; but in adversity it is the most difficult of all things.
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The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
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Renew every day your conversation with God: Do this even in preference to eating. Think more often of God than you breathe.
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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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First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
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He who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.
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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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Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.
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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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Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
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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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Desire and happiness cannot live together.
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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 wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
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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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