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.
EPICTETUSMan is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
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To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.
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We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.
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By accepting life’s limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.
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You become what you give your attention to. If you yourself don’t choose what thoughts and images you expose yourself to, someone else will, and their motives may not be the highest.
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People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.
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It’s time to stop being vague. If you wish to be an extraordinary person, if you wish to be wise, then you should explicitly identify the kind of person you aspire to become.
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If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
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Books are the training weights of the mind.
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Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
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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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Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
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Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.
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Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
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Difficulty shows what men are.
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No great thing is created suddenly. There must be time. Give your best and always be kind.
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