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Epictetus Quote - If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

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Don’t demand or expect that events happen as you would wish them do. Accept events as they actually happen. That way, peace is possible.
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Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.
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Only the educated are free.
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Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
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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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Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
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When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it; you can either accept it or resent it.
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Don’t be concerned with other people’s impressions of you. They are dazzled and deluded by appearances. Stick with your purpose. This alone will strengthen your will and give your life coherence.
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Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
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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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Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?
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It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
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You become what you give your attention to. If you yourself don’t choose what thoughts and images you expose yourself to, someone else will, and their motives may not be the highest.
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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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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
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Books are the training weights of the mind.
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