There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will.
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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You can be happy if you know this secret: Some things are within your power to control and some things are not.
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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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It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
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The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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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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Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
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It takes more than just a good looking body. You’ve got to have the heart and soul to go with it.
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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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What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
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Do not try to seem wise to others.
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If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
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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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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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