First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
EPICTETUSFreedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
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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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People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.
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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’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
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Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
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It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
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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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The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
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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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All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
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You have been given your own work to do. Get to it right now, do your best at it, and don’t be concerned with who is watching you. Create your own merit.
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If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
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No man is free who is not master of himself.
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