We can’t control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character.
EPICTETUSIt 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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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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Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?
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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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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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Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
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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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Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
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Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
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People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.
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Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
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A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
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Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
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The best place to get help is from yourself.
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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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It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.
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