Don’t consent to be hurt and you won’t be hurt – this is a choice over which you have control.
EPICTETUSIt is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.
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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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First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
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To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.
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It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
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It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
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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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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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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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The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
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Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
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Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
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In trying to please other people, we find ourselves misdirected toward what lies outside our sphere of influence. In doing so, we lose our hold on our lifes purpose.
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The best place to get help is from yourself.
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Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
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Happiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing.
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