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Epictetus Quote - Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power.

Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power.

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Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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Believe Healing One Liner Recover Ruin
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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Character Determination Imagination Personality Role Model Yourself
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
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Books are the training weights of the mind.
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Freedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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Believe Beyond Control Freedom Happiness Win
What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
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Attitude Concern Human Nature People Thinking
Happiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing.
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Consequences Fulfillment Happiness Positive
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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Body Cure Die Live Necessary Soul
To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.
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Deed Inspirational Life Live Virtue
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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Adversity Difficult Finding Friendship Prosperity
Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
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Explanation Express Philosophy
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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Endure Introduce Life Opportunity Resource Strength
All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
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Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.
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Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness.
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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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