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.
EPICTETUSTentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.
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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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When you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
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Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.
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The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
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Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.
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Only the educated are free.
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If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
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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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The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
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First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
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When we blather about trivial things, we ourselves become trivial, for our attention gets taken up with trivialities. You become what you give your attention to.
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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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It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.
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He who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.
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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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