By accepting life’s limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.
EPICTETUSDon’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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Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?
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Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle.
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The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
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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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It is more necessary for the soul to be cured than the body; for it is better to die than to live badly.
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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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First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
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We can’t control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character.
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Don’t be concerned with other people’s impressions of you. They are dazzled and deluded by appearances. Stick with your purpose. This alone will strengthen your will and give your life coherence.
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Desire and happiness cannot live together.
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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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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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If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
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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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Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.
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