What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
EPICTETUSFreedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
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Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
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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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Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
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Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
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The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
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Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
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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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When we blather about trivial things, we ourselves become trivial, for our attention gets taken up with trivialities. You become what you give your attention to.
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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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Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
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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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Don’t live by your own rules, but in harmony with nature.
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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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It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
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