If you wish to live a life free from sorrow, think of what is going to happen as if it had already happened.
EPICTETUSWhat concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
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You become what you give your attention to. If you yourself don’t choose what thoughts and images you expose yourself to, someone else will, and their motives may not be the highest.
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When you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
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Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
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Only the educated are free.
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Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
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If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
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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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Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
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Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
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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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First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
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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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He who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.
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No man is free who is not master of himself.
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Desire and happiness cannot live together.
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