The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
EPICTETUSIf you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
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The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
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If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
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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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First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
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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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If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
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Only the educated are free.
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Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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It is better to die of hunger having lived without grief and fear, than to live with a troubled spirit, amid abundance.
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It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
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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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First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
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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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No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.
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When we blather about trivial things, we ourselves become trivial, for our attention gets taken up with trivialities. You become what you give your attention to.
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