If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
EPICTETUSKeep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
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Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
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We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.
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All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
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Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
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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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The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
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Difficulty shows what men are.
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Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?
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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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All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
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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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Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
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Have the wisdom to know what cannot be changed, and the strength to change what can.
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Books are the training weights of the mind.
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