Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
EPICTETUSDo not try to seem wise to others.
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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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Don’t consent to be hurt and you won’t be hurt – this is a choice over which you have control.
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Don’t demand or expect that events happen as you would wish them do. Accept events as they actually happen. That way, peace is possible.
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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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Every difficulty in life presents us with an opportunity to turn inward and to invoke our own submerged inner resources. The trials we endure can and should introduce us to our strengths.
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People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.
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To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.
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Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
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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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The best place to get help is from yourself.
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If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
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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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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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Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness.
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