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Epictetus Quote - What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.

What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.

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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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Adopt Association Attitude Negative People Trouble
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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Aspire Extraordinary Inspirational Time Vague Wise
If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
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Bad Believe Goodness Improvement One Liner
We all dread a bodily paralysis, and would make use of every contrivance to avoid it; but none of us is troubled about a paralysis of the soul.
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Avoid Body Pralysis Soul Trouble
Desire and happiness cannot live together.
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Desire Happiness Live One Liner Togetherness
Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
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Anxiety Imagination Man Problem Worry
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
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Consist Greatness Minimalism Possession Want Wealth
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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Acceptance Demand Expectation Happen Peace Possible
Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?
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Appearance Done Goodness Inspirational Man Sake
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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Ears Giving Hear Nature Speak Tongue
It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
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Impossible Learning Man Thinking
Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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Believe Healing One Liner Recover Ruin
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
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Company Friendship Key People Presence
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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Happiness Liberty Life People Right Truth
Difficulty shows what men are.
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Character Difficult Men One Liner
All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
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One Liner Philosophy Reality Sustain

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