We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.
EPICTETUSMake the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
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Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
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I laugh at those who think they can damage me. They do not know who I am, they do not know what I think, they cannot even touch the things which are really mine and with which I live.
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Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
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Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
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Demand not that things happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do, and you will go on well.
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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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Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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Only the educated are free.
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No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.
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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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If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
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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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No man is free who is not master of himself.
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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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