He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
EPICTETUSHave the wisdom to know what cannot be changed, and the strength to change what can.
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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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Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.
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Renew every day your conversation with God: Do this even in preference to eating. Think more often of God than you breathe.
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Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
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You can be happy if you know this secret: Some things are within your power to control and some things are not.
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We can’t control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character.
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Freedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
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Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
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He who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.
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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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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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There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will.
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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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Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
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