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.
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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Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
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Every difficulty in life presents us with an opportunity to turn inward and to invoke our own submerged inner resources. The trials we endure can and should introduce us to our strengths.
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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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When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it; you can either accept it or resent it.
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Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
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First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
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Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.
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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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Wisdom means understanding without any doubt that circumstances do not rise to meet our expectations. Events happen as they may. People behave as they will.
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No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.
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Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
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Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.
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Freedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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If you wish to live a life free from sorrow, think of what is going to happen as if it had already happened.
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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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