If you seek Truth, you will not seek to gain a victory by every possible means; and when you have found Truth, you need not fear being defeated.
EPICTETUSDesire and happiness cannot live together.
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Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?
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A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
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Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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Try not to react merely in the moment. Pull back from the situation. Take a wider view. Compose yourself.
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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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It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
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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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We can’t control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character.
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People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.
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No great thing is created suddenly. There must be time. Give your best and always be kind.
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Do not try to seem wise to others.
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We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.
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Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
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It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
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Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.
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