Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness.
EPICTETUSHe who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.
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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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First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
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Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle.
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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 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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Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power.
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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
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Only the educated are free.
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There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will.
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Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
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Difficulty shows what men are.
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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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Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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No matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person.
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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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