Attach yourself to what is spiritually superior, regardless of what other people think or do. Hold to your true aspirations no matter what is going on around you.
EPICTETUSDesire and happiness cannot live together.
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If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
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Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control.
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Every difficulty in life presents us with an opportunity to turn inward and to invoke our own submerged inner resources. The trials we endure can and should introduce us to our strengths.
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Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.
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If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
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Don’t live by your own rules, but in harmony with nature.
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Difficulty shows what men are.
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No man is free who is not master of himself.
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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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The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
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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 is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.
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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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What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
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Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.
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