It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous, even death is terrible only if we fear it.
EPICTETUSIt is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
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It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
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The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
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Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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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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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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Every difficulty in life presents us with an opportunity to turn inward and to invoke our own submerged inner resources. The trials we endure can and should introduce us to our strengths.
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He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
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Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.
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Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.
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The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
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To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.
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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
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The best place to get help is from yourself.
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By accepting life’s limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.
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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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