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Epictetus Quote - In trying to please other people, we find ourselves misdirected toward what lies outside our sphere of influence. In doing so, we lose our hold on our lifes purpose.

In trying to please other people, we find ourselves misdirected toward what lies outside our sphere of influence. In doing so, we lose our hold on our lifes purpose.

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The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
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Books are the training weights of the mind.
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Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
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The best place to get help is from yourself.
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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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No man is free who is not master of himself.
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Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
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Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle.
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The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
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If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
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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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