If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
EPICTETUSIn 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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Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
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No man is free who is not master of himself.
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All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
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Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.
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Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
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You have been given your own work to do. Get to it right now, do your best at it, and don’t be concerned with who is watching you. Create your own merit.
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We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.
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No matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person.
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By accepting life’s limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.
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Freedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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It’s time to stop being vague. If you wish to be an extraordinary person, if you wish to be wise, then you should explicitly identify the kind of person you aspire to become.
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Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
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If you seek Truth, you will not seek to gain a victory by every possible means; and when you have found Truth, you need not fear being defeated.
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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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Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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