No man is free who is not master of himself.
EPICTETUSRenew 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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We all carry the seeds of greatness within us, but we need an image as a point of focus in order that they may sprout.
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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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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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We can’t control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character.
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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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Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
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Demand not that things happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do, and you will go on well.
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We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.
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He who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.
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First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
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Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
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People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.
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Every difficulty in life presents us with an opportunity to turn inward and to invoke our own submerged inner resources. The trials we endure can and should introduce us to our strengths.
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If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
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Don’t consent to be hurt and you won’t be hurt – this is a choice over which you have control.
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