No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.
EPICTETUSGive me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
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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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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.
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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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Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power.
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Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
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Difficulty shows what men are.
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Don’t live by your own rules, but in harmony with nature.
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Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control.
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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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Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
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If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
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It is unrealistc to expect people to see you as you see yourself.
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People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.
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You can be happy if you know this secret: Some things are within your power to control and some things are not.
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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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