When you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
EPICTETUSRuin and recovering are both from within.
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We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.
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No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.
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To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.
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First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
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Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
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A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
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If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
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The best place to get help is from yourself.
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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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Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness.
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Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.
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Don’t live by your own rules, but in harmony with nature.
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Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
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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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