No man is free who is not master of himself.
EPICTETUSKnow you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?
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In prosperity it is very easy to find a friend; but in adversity it is the most difficult of all things.
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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 world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
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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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Other people’s views and troubles can be contagious. Don’t sabotage yourself by unwittingly adopting negative, unproductive attitudes through your associations with others.
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Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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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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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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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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Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?
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Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.
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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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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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Have the wisdom to know what cannot be changed, and the strength to change what can.
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Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
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Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.
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It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
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People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.
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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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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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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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It takes more than just a good looking body. You’ve got to have the heart and soul to go with it.
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Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
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