If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
EPICTETUSHappiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing.
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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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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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You have been given your own work to do. Get to it right now, do your best at it, and don’t be concerned with who is watching you. Create your own merit.
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Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
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Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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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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No matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person.
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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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Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
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Have the wisdom to know what cannot be changed, and the strength to change what can.
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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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Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.
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If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
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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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People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.
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First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
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Only the educated are free.
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The best place to get help is from yourself.
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Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
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Don’t live by your own rules, but in harmony with nature.
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Don’t be concerned with other people’s impressions of you. They are dazzled and deluded by appearances. Stick with your purpose. This alone will strengthen your will and give your life coherence.
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Try not to react merely in the moment. Pull back from the situation. Take a wider view. Compose yourself.
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Do not try to seem wise to others.
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It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
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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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When we blather about trivial things, we ourselves become trivial, for our attention gets taken up with trivialities. You become what you give your attention to.
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