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.
EPICTETUSTentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.
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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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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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Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
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Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
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Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.
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No matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person.
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Difficulty shows what men are.
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Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness.
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If you wish to live a life free from sorrow, think of what is going to happen as if it had already happened.
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Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
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Don’t live by your own rules, but in harmony with nature.
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There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will.
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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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We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.
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Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.
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