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

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

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Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
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Attitude Inspirational Men Thinking Trouble
It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
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Impossible Learning Man Thinking
All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
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Acceptance Heaven Life Man Religion Tolerance
We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.
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Event Judgement Life Live Suffering
No man is free who is not master of himself.
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Freedom Himself Inspirational Master One Liner
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
Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
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Anxiety Imagination Man Problem Worry
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
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Company Friendship Key People Presence
No great thing is created suddenly. There must be time. Give your best and always be kind.
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Business Entrepreneur Giving Inspirational Patience Time
Freedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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Believe Beyond Control Freedom Happiness Win
Have the wisdom to know what cannot be changed, and the strength to change what can.
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Business Change Inspirational Strength Success Wisdom
Only the educated are free.
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Education Freedom One Liner
Books are the training weights of the mind.
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Book Mind One Liner Training Weight
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
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
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Control Expectation Inspirational Life Value
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
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will.
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Beyong Cease Happiness Let Go Power Worry
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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Demand Happen Inspirational Satisfaction
Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle.
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Beginning Clear Freedom Happiness Principle Understand
Try not to react merely in the moment. Pull back from the situation. Take a wider view. Compose yourself.
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Moments Patience Reaction Situation Try Yourself
To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.
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Deed Inspirational Life Live Virtue
When you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
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Angry Fault Forget Man Offend Study Yourself
If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
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Evil Laugh Speak True Yourself
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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Breathe Conservation Eat God Preference Thinking
Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
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Appointment Arrive Business Event Happen
No matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person.
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Finding Healing Inspirational Person Yourself
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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Avoid Body Pralysis Soul Trouble

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