Books are the training weights of the mind.
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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When you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
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Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
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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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Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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By accepting life’s limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.
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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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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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In prosperity it is very easy to find a friend; but in adversity it is the most difficult of all things.
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Attach yourself to what is spiritually superior, regardless of what other people think or do. Hold to your true aspirations no matter what is going on around you.
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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
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Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
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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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We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.
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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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Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
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