Don’t be concerned with other people’s impressions of you. They are dazzled and deluded by appearances. Stick with your purpose. This alone will strengthen your will and give your life coherence.
EPICTETUSMan is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
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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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First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
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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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Don’t live by your own rules, but in harmony with nature.
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Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
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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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Try not to react merely in the moment. Pull back from the situation. Take a wider view. Compose yourself.
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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
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If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
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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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No man is free who is not master of himself.
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It’s time to stop being vague. If you wish to be an extraordinary person, if you wish to be wise, then you should explicitly identify the kind of person you aspire to become.
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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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Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
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The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
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