No matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person.
EPICTETUSIt is unrealistc to expect people to see you as you see yourself.
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Difficulty shows what men are.
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Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
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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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No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.
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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
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Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?
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Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness.
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We can’t control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character.
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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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Try not to react merely in the moment. Pull back from the situation. Take a wider view. Compose yourself.
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We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.
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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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Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
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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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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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