It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
EPICTETUSWhen 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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To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.
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If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
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The best place to get help is from yourself.
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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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Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
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When you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
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If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
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Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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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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Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?
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We all dread a bodily paralysis, and would make use of every contrivance to avoid it; but none of us is troubled about a paralysis of the soul.
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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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All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
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It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
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Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control.
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