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.
EPICTETUSIt 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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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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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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Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power.
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He who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.
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Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
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The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
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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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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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The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
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No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.
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Books are the training weights of the mind.
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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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The best place to get help is from yourself.
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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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