Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
EPICTETUSKeep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
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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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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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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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If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
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Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
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Don’t demand or expect that events happen as you would wish them do. Accept events as they actually happen. That way, peace is possible.
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In trying to please other people, we find ourselves misdirected toward what lies outside our sphere of influence. In doing so, we lose our hold on our lifes purpose.
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When we blather about trivial things, we ourselves become trivial, for our attention gets taken up with trivialities. You become what you give your attention to.
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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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Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
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He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
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First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
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Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.
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The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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Desire and happiness cannot live together.
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