Attach yourself to what is spiritually superior, regardless of what other people think or do. Hold to your true aspirations no matter what is going on around you.
EPICTETUSAll religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
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Other people’s views and troubles can be contagious. Don’t sabotage yourself by unwittingly adopting negative, unproductive attitudes through your associations with others.
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The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
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All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
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Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
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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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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.
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Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.
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We all carry the seeds of greatness within us, but we need an image as a point of focus in order that they may sprout.
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Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle.
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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.
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He who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.
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It’s time to stop being vague. If you wish to be an extraordinary person, if you wish to be wise, then you should explicitly identify the kind of person you aspire to become.
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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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Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.
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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 greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
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Don’t demand or expect that events happen as you would wish them do. Accept events as they actually happen. That way, peace is possible.
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A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
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We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.
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Wisdom means understanding without any doubt that circumstances do not rise to meet our expectations. Events happen as they may. People behave as they will.
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There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will.
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Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it; you can either accept it or resent it.
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Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.
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