Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
EPICTETUSDon’t live by your own rules, but in harmony with nature.
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Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.
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Other people’s views and troubles can be contagious. Don’t sabotage yourself by unwittingly adopting negative, unproductive attitudes through your associations with others.
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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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Do not try to seem wise to others.
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If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
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Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
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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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Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody 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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I laugh at those who think they can damage me. They do not know who I am, they do not know what I think, they cannot even touch the things which are really mine and with which I live.
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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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It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
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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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He who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.
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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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Only the educated are free.
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Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.
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Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
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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 better to die of hunger having lived without grief and fear, than to live with a troubled spirit, amid abundance.
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Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
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Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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It takes more than just a good looking body. You’ve got to have the heart and soul to go with it.
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He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
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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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Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
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