You can be happy if you know this secret: Some things are within your power to control and some things are not.
EPICTETUSI 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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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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No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.
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No man is free who is not master of himself.
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First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
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Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
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Difficulty shows what men are.
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All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
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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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The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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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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We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.
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If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
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Books are the training weights of the mind.
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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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People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.
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