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.
EPICTETUSAll religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
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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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It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.
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Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.
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In trying to please other people, we find ourselves misdirected toward what lies outside our sphere of influence. In doing so, we lose our hold on our lifes purpose.
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No man is free who is not master of himself.
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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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Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
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We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.
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If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
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It is better to die of hunger having lived without grief and fear, than to live with a troubled spirit, amid abundance.
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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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Renew every day your conversation with God: Do this even in preference to eating. Think more often of God than you breathe.
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We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.
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Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
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