It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
EPICTETUSIn prosperity it is very easy to find a friend; but in adversity it is the most difficult of all things.
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Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.
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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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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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The best place to get help is from yourself.
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Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
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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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First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
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He who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.
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It is better to die of hunger having lived without grief and fear, than to live with a troubled spirit, amid abundance.
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Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
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Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
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Demand not that things happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do, and you will go on well.
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Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control.
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People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.
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We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.
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