If you wish to live a life free from sorrow, think of what is going to happen as if it had already happened.
EPICTETUSThere 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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Books are the training weights of the mind.
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People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.
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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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First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
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All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
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What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
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We all dread a bodily paralysis, and would make use of every contrivance to avoid it; but none of us is troubled about a paralysis of the soul.
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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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No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.
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It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
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It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
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Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
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Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
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What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
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Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.
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