Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.
EPICTETUSTo live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.
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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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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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Don’t live by your own rules, but in harmony with nature.
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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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Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
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Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
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Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.
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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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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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It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
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The best place to get help is from yourself.
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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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Books are the training weights of the mind.
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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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Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
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