Desire and happiness cannot live together.
EPICTETUSKeep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.
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Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle.
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Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.
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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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We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.
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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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Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
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Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
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We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.
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Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
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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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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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Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
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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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Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.
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No matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person.
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