Do not try to seem wise to others.
EPICTETUSWisdom means understanding without any doubt that circumstances do not rise to meet our expectations. Events happen as they may. People behave as they will.
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No man is free who is not master of himself.
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The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
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Freedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
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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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It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
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Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle.
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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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If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
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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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Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
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Have the wisdom to know what cannot be changed, and the strength to change what can.
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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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If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
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