Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
EPICTETUSFirst learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
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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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Freedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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It’s so simple really: If you say you’re going to do something, do it. If you start something, finish it.
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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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What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
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Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
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Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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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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It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
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To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.
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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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Only the educated are free.
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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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A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
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You have been given your own work to do. Get to it right now, do your best at it, and don’t be concerned with who is watching you. Create your own merit.
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Do not try to seem wise to others.
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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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What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
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Books are the training weights of the mind.
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Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
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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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By accepting life’s limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.
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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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Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.
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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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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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