When you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
EPICTETUSKeep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
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Attach yourself to what is spiritually superior, regardless of what other people think or do. Hold to your true aspirations no matter what is going on around you.
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It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
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Desire and happiness cannot live together.
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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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Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
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Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?
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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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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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Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
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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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We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.
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We can’t control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character.
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Books are the training weights of the mind.
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A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
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Renew every day your conversation with God: Do this even in preference to eating. Think more often of God than you breathe.
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