Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
EPICTETUSPeople are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.
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Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
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Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.
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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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The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
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Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control.
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The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
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What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
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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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Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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Do not try to seem wise to others.
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Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
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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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Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
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Only the educated are free.
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Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power.
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