The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
EPICTETUSWe 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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No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.
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If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
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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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Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
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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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You can be happy if you know this secret: Some things are within your power to control and some things are not.
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Try not to react merely in the moment. Pull back from the situation. Take a wider view. Compose yourself.
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Desire and happiness cannot live together.
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Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
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Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
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Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
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It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
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Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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