If you wish to live a life free from sorrow, think of what is going to happen as if it had already happened.
EPICTETUSSeek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.
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Have the wisdom to know what cannot be changed, and the strength to change what can.
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Desire and happiness cannot live together.
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All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
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When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it; you can either accept it or resent it.
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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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If you seek Truth, you will not seek to gain a victory by every possible means; and when you have found Truth, you need not fear being defeated.
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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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All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
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Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.
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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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Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
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First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
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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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He who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.
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