We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.
EPICTETUSHe who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.
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First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
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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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Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.
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Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
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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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The best place to get help is from yourself.
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Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
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No matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person.
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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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People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.
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By accepting life’s limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.
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Books are the training weights of the mind.
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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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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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Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
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