All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
EPICTETUSWisdom 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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Happiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing.
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Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.
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Don’t live by your own rules, but in harmony with nature.
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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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There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will.
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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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Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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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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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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The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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Other people’s views and troubles can be contagious. Don’t sabotage yourself by unwittingly adopting negative, unproductive attitudes through your associations with others.
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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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Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
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