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Epictetus Quote - Demand not that things happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do, and you will go on well.

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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Difficulty shows what men are.
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Character Difficult Men One Liner
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
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Consist Greatness Minimalism Possession Want Wealth
If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
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Book Poet Reading Writing
Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.
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Angry Disturb Master Permit Person Yourself
Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle.
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Beginning Clear Freedom Happiness Principle Understand
Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?
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Appearance Done Goodness Inspirational Man Sake
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
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Control Expectation Inspirational Life Value
Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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Believe Healing One Liner Recover Ruin
When we blather about trivial things, we ourselves become trivial, for our attention gets taken up with trivialities. You become what you give your attention to.
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Attention Character Giving Inspirational Ourselves
Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
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Account Giving Inspirational Life Positive
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
We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.
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Event Judgement Life Live Suffering
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
Attach yourself to what is spiritually superior, regardless of what other people think or do. Hold to your true aspirations no matter what is going on around you.
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Aspiration People Regard Spiritual Superior Yourself
If you wish to live a life free from sorrow, think of what is going to happen as if it had already happened.
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Freedom Inspirational Let Go Life Live Sorrow
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
The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
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Difficult Motivational Pilot Reputation Skill Storm
Do not try to seem wise to others.
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Inspirational Life One Liner Try Wise
Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
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Attitude Inspirational Men Thinking Trouble
We all carry the seeds of greatness within us, but we need an image as a point of focus in order that they may sprout.
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Carry Focus Greatness Inspirational Need Seed
The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
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Happiness Liberty Life People Right Truth
First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
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Goodness Learning Manner Speak
It is unrealistc to expect people to see you as you see yourself.
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Deep Expectation People Reality Yourself
Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.
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Goodness Inspirational Life Seek Wisdom Yourself
Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
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Important Philosophy Silence Speak Wisdom
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
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
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Death Depression Fear Love Pain

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