If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
EPICTETUSNo matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person.
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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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Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
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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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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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The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
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It is unrealistc to expect people to see you as you see yourself.
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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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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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It’s time to stop being vague. If you wish to be an extraordinary person, if you wish to be wise, then you should explicitly identify the kind of person you aspire to become.
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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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What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
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It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
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Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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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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Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?
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