All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
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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Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.
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Wisdom means understanding without any doubt that circumstances do not rise to meet our expectations. Events happen as they may. People behave as they will.
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Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.
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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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Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
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Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness.
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It’s so simple really: If you say you’re going to do something, do it. If you start something, finish it.
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Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
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We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.
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No matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person.
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Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.
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You become what you give your attention to. If you yourself don’t choose what thoughts and images you expose yourself to, someone else will, and their motives may not be the highest.
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If you seek Truth, you will not seek to gain a victory by every possible means; and when you have found Truth, you need not fear being defeated.
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I laugh at those who think they can damage me. They do not know who I am, they do not know what I think, they cannot even touch the things which are really mine and with which I live.
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Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
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