Renew every day your conversation with God: Do this even in preference to eating. Think more often of God than you breathe.
EPICTETUSTry not to react merely in the moment. Pull back from the situation. Take a wider view. Compose yourself.
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To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.
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If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
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Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
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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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Books are the training weights of the mind.
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We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.
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You can be happy if you know this secret: Some things are within your power to control and some things are not.
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People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.
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First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
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Any 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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The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
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Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
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Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
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The best place to get help is from yourself.
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Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
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