It is more necessary for the soul to be cured than the body; for it is better to die than to live badly.
EPICTETUSRuin and recovering are both from within.
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Freedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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Only the educated are free.
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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.
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Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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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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A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
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Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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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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Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
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Desire and happiness cannot live together.
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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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Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
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Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
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Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.
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Books are the training weights of the mind.
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