Attach yourself to what is spiritually superior, regardless of what other people think or do. Hold to your true aspirations no matter what is going on around you.
EPICTETUSHe who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.
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It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous, even death is terrible only if we fear 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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It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.
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Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
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Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.
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In prosperity it is very easy to find a friend; but in adversity it is the most difficult of all things.
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Don’t live by your own rules, but in harmony with nature.
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No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.
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Don’t demand or expect that events happen as you would wish them do. Accept events as they actually happen. That way, peace is possible.
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The best place to get help is from yourself.
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No man is free who is not master of himself.
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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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Don’t consent to be hurt and you won’t be hurt – this is a choice over which you have control.
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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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The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
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