People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.
EPICTETUSAny 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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Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle.
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The best place to get help is from yourself.
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If you seek Truth, you will not seek to gain a victory by every possible means; and when you have found Truth, you need not fear being defeated.
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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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The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
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We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.
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First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
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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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We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.
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Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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Do not try to seem wise to others.
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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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By accepting life’s limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.
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Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
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Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.
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