If you wish to live a life free from sorrow, think of what is going to happen as if it had already happened.
EPICTETUSNothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control.
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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 want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
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Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness.
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Difficulty shows what men are.
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Have the wisdom to know what cannot be changed, and the strength to change what can.
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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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It takes more than just a good looking body. You’ve got to have the heart and soul to go with it.
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Wisdom means understanding without any doubt that circumstances do not rise to meet our expectations. Events happen as they may. People behave as they will.
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Only the educated are free.
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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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First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
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It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.
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Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.
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We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.
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He who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.
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