It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.
EPICTETUSTo live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.
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You have been given your own work to do. Get to it right now, do your best at it, and don’t be concerned with who is watching you. Create your own merit.
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All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
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We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.
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Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
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The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
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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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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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First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
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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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Don’t live by your own rules, but in harmony with nature.
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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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Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.
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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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We can’t control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character.
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