First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
EPICTETUSThe greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
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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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It takes more than just a good looking body. You’ve got to have the heart and soul to go with it.
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If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
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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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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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He who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.
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A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
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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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Only the educated are free.
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People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.
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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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Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
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Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control.
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Don’t demand or expect that events happen as you would wish them do. Accept events as they actually happen. That way, peace is possible.
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It is better to die of hunger having lived without grief and fear, than to live with a troubled spirit, amid abundance.
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Books are the training weights of the mind.
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We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.
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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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Other people’s views and troubles can be contagious. Don’t sabotage yourself by unwittingly adopting negative, unproductive attitudes through your associations with others.
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Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
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Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.
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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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In prosperity it is very easy to find a friend; but in adversity it is the most difficult of all things.
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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
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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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