If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
EPICTETUSIt is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
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No matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person.
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Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.
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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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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.
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No man is free who is not master of himself.
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If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
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Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
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Other people’s views and troubles can be contagious. Don’t sabotage yourself by unwittingly adopting negative, unproductive attitudes through your associations with others.
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Renew every day your conversation with God: Do this even in preference to eating. Think more often of God than you breathe.
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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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Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
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Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
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Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
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You become what you give your attention to. If you yourself don’t choose what thoughts and images you expose yourself to, someone else will, and their motives may not be the highest.
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If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
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