Do not try to seem wise to others.
EPICTETUSEvery 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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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.
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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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We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.
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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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Desire and happiness cannot live together.
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It takes more than just a good looking body. You’ve got to have the heart and soul to go with it.
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It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous, even death is terrible only if we fear it.
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You can be happy if you know this secret: Some things are within your power to control and some things are not.
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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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Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
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The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
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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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Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
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It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
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We all carry the seeds of greatness within us, but we need an image as a point of focus in order that they may sprout.
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