Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
EPICTETUSIf you wish to live a life free from sorrow, think of what is going to happen as if it had already happened.
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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.
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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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By accepting life’s limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.
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It’s so simple really: If you say you’re going to do something, do it. If you start something, finish it.
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The best place to get help is from yourself.
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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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Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
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First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
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Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
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Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
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Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
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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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Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.
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Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle.
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