When you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
EPICTETUSGive me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
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No matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person.
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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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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.
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It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
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The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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I laugh at those who think they can damage me. They do not know who I am, they do not know what I think, they cannot even touch the things which are really mine and with which I live.
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It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
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We all carry the seeds of greatness within us, but we need an image as a point of focus in order that they may sprout.
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Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
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What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
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If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
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We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.
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Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
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Have the wisdom to know what cannot be changed, and the strength to change what can.
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No great thing is created suddenly. There must be time. Give your best and always be kind.
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