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Epictetus Quote - If you wish to live a life free from sorrow, think of what is going to happen as if it had already happened.

If 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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Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power.
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Arise Control Neglect Power Suffering Try
Difficulty shows what men are.
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Character Difficult Men One Liner
Every difficulty in life presents us with an opportunity to turn inward and to invoke our own submerged inner resources. The trials we endure can and should introduce us to our strengths.
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Endure Introduce Life Opportunity Resource Strength
Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
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Accident Achievement Improvement Inspirational Luck Progress
Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
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Important Philosophy Silence Speak Wisdom
If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
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Content Fools Improvement Stupid Want
It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous, even death is terrible only if we fear it.
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Attitude Control Death Fear Nature Terrible
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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Attitude Damage Laugh Live Thinking
What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
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Attitude Concern Human Nature People Thinking
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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Behaviour Circumstance Expectation People Understand Wisdom
Demand not that things happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do, and you will go on well.
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Demand Happen Inspirational Satisfaction
Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
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Abandonment Break Up Let Go Togetherness Worth
To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.
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Deed Inspirational Life Live Virtue
Do not try to seem wise to others.
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Inspirational Life One Liner Try Wise
Happiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing.
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Consequences Fulfillment Happiness Positive
Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
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Explanation Express Philosophy

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