Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.
EPICTETUSDo not try to seem wise to others.
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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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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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Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
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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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The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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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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If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
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The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
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He who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.
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When we blather about trivial things, we ourselves become trivial, for our attention gets taken up with trivialities. You become what you give your attention to.
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Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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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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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
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Books are the training weights of the mind.
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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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