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We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.

Epictetus

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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Angry Disturb Master Permit Person Yourself
It’s so simple really: If you say you’re going to do something, do it. If you start something, finish it.
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Business Finish Motivational Patience Start Success
It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
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Impossible Learning Man Thinking
It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous, even death is terrible only if we fear it.
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Attitude Control Death Fear Nature Terrible
Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
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Account Giving Inspirational Life Positive
The best place to get help is from yourself.
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Confidence Help Inspirational One Liner Place Yourself
We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.
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Event Judgement Life Live Suffering
It is unrealistc to expect people to see you as you see yourself.
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Deep Expectation People Reality Yourself
No man is free who is not master of himself.
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Freedom Himself Inspirational Master One Liner
If you seek Truth, you will not seek to gain a victory by every possible means; and when you have found Truth, you need not fear being defeated.
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Defeat Fear Gain Seek Truth Victory
It is more necessary for the soul to be cured than the body; for it is better to die than to live badly.
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Body Cure Die Live Necessary Soul
People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.
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Disturb Human Nature Imagination People
When you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
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Angry Fault Forget Man Offend Study Yourself
Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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Believe Healing One Liner Recover Ruin
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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Goals Influence Lie Life Please Purpose
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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Carry Focus Greatness Inspirational Need Seed

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