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First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.

Epictetus

It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
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Handle Happen Inspirational Matter Reaction
Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.
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Consider Listen Need Philosophy Practice
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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Abundance Die Fear Hunger Live Trouble
No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.
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Advantage Change Happen Inspirational Matter Power
Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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Control Freedom Goals Life Win Worth
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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Ears Giving Hear Nature Speak Tongue
Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.
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Goodness Inspirational Life Seek Wisdom Yourself
In trying to please other people, we find ourselves misdirected toward what lies outside our sphere of influence. In doing so, we lose our hold on our lifes purpose.
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Goals Influence Lie Life Please Purpose
Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
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Freedom Inspirational Live Right Satisfaction
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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Concern Creation Giving Motivational Watch Work
We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.
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Event Judgement Life Live Suffering
What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
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Attitude Concern Human Nature People Thinking
We can’t control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character.
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Character Control Effort Impression
All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
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One Liner Philosophy Reality Sustain
First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
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Believe Motivational Yourself
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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Defeat Fear Gain Seek Truth Victory

First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.

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