Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
EPICTETUSDon’t live by your own rules, but in harmony with nature.
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If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
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Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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It’s so simple really: If you say you’re going to do something, do it. If you start something, finish it.
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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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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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The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
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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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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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Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
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No matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person.
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Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness.
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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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When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it; you can either accept it or resent it.
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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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First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
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