Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle.
EPICTETUSIt is unrealistc to expect people to see you as you see yourself.
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No matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person.
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Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.
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Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
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The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
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Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
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If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
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Only the educated are free.
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Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
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It’s time to stop being vague. If you wish to be an extraordinary person, if you wish to be wise, then you should explicitly identify the kind of person you aspire to become.
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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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It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
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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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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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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
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Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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