We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.
EPICTETUSImagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
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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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No matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person.
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Desire and happiness cannot live together.
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Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control.
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The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
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Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.
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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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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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No great thing is created suddenly. There must be time. Give your best and always be kind.
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Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
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When we blather about trivial things, we ourselves become trivial, for our attention gets taken up with trivialities. You become what you give your attention to.
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People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.
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First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
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