People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.
EPICTETUSThe greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
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Don’t live by your own rules, but in harmony with nature.
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You have been given your own work to do. Get to it right now, do your best at it, and don’t be concerned with who is watching you. Create your own merit.
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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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Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
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When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it; you can either accept it or resent it.
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All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
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Difficulty shows what men are.
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Books are the training weights of the mind.
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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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Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
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Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
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Freedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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When we blather about trivial things, we ourselves become trivial, for our attention gets taken up with trivialities. You become what you give your attention to.
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The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
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Wisdom 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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