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No matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person.

Epictetus

Demand not that things happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do, and you will go on well.
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Demand Happen Inspirational Satisfaction
The best place to get help is from yourself.
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Confidence Help Inspirational One Liner Place Yourself
We can’t control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character.
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Character Control Effort Impression
Every difficulty in life presents us with an opportunity to turn inward and to invoke our own submerged inner resources. The trials we endure can and should introduce us to our strengths.
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Endure Introduce Life Opportunity Resource Strength
Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.
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Ears Giving Hear Nature Speak Tongue
Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
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Freedom Inspirational Live Right Satisfaction
Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.
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Effort Exercise Motivational One Liner Outcome Work Hard
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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Carry Focus Greatness Inspirational Need Seed
Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.
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Authentic Condition Happiness Independence Inspirational
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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Alone Appearance Impression Life People Strength
The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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Going Man Philosophy Wisdom World
In trying to please other people, we find ourselves misdirected toward what lies outside our sphere of influence. In doing so, we lose our hold on our lifes purpose.
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Goals Influence Lie Life Please Purpose
Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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Control Freedom Goals Life Win Worth
If you seek Truth, you will not seek to gain a victory by every possible means; and when you have found Truth, you need not fear being defeated.
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Defeat Fear Gain Seek Truth Victory
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
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Control Expectation Inspirational Life Value
Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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Believe Healing One Liner Recover Ruin

No matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person.

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No matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person.

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