Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
EPICTETUSDesire and happiness cannot live together.
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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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Have the wisdom to know what cannot be changed, and the strength to change what can.
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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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Try not to react merely in the moment. Pull back from the situation. Take a wider view. Compose yourself.
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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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Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
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Do not try to seem wise to others.
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To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.
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Only the educated are free.
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Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.
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Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.
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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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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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Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
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