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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.

Epictetus

Renew every day your conversation with God: Do this even in preference to eating. Think more often of God than you breathe.
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Breathe Conservation Eat God Preference Thinking
People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.
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Disturb Human Nature Imagination People
We all dread a bodily paralysis, and would make use of every contrivance to avoid it; but none of us is troubled about a paralysis of the soul.
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Avoid Body Pralysis Soul Trouble
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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Aspire Extraordinary Inspirational Time Vague Wise
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
Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.
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Attention Belong Business Concern Focus True
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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Body Cure Die Live Necessary Soul
Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?
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Appearance Done Goodness Inspirational Man Sake
Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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Believe Healing One Liner Recover Ruin
He who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.
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Greedy Happiness Human Nature Life
Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
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Abandonment Break Up Let Go Togetherness Worth
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
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Death Depression Fear Love Pain
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
The best place to get help is from yourself.
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Confidence Help Inspirational One Liner Place Yourself
We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.
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Believe Confidence Faith Inspirational Time
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
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Company Friendship Key People Presence

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 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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