Demand not that things happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do, and you will go on well.
EPICTETUSWe 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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We all carry the seeds of greatness within us, but we need an image as a point of focus in order that they may sprout.
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No matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person.
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Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
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Only the educated are free.
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I laugh at those who think they can damage me. They do not know who I am, they do not know what I think, they cannot even touch the things which are really mine and with which I live.
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If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
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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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It’s so simple really: If you say you’re going to do something, do it. If you start something, finish it.
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Happiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing.
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It is more necessary for the soul to be cured than the body; for it is better to die than to live badly.
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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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Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
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Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
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No man is free who is not master of himself.
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It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
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