When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it; you can either accept it or resent it.
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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Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
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Do not try to seem wise to others.
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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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Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
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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 people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
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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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To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.
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You have been given your own work to do. Get to it right now, do your best at it, and don’t be concerned with who is watching you. Create your own merit.
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Books are the training weights of the mind.
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Desire and happiness cannot live together.
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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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No man is free who is not master of himself.
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We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.
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It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.
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