Do not try to seem wise to others.
EPICTETUSNo man is free who is not master of himself.
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Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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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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It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
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Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
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Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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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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All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
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Renew every day your conversation with God: Do this even in preference to eating. Think more often of God than you breathe.
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All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
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Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
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Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness.
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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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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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You can be happy if you know this secret: Some things are within your power to control and some things are not.
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Books are the training weights of the mind.
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