The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
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The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
More Epictetus Quotes
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The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
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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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First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
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Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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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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What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
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We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.
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Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
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If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
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By accepting life’s limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.
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The best place to get help is from yourself.
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To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.
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The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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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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