In prosperity it is very easy to find a friend; but in adversity it is the most difficult of all things.
EPICTETUSDon’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
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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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No man is free who is not master of himself.
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What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
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The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
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Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
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The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
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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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We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.
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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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If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
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Desire and happiness cannot live together.
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A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
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Don’t live by your own rules, but in harmony with nature.
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Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle.
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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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