The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
EPICTETUSYou 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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Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
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Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
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A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
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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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We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.
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I laugh at those who think they can damage me. They do not know who I am, they do not know what I think, they cannot even touch the things which are really mine and with which I live.
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The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
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Attach yourself to what is spiritually superior, regardless of what other people think or do. Hold to your true aspirations no matter what is going on around you.
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Difficulty shows what men are.
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All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
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No man is free who is not master of himself.
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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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We all dread a bodily paralysis, and would make use of every contrivance to avoid it; but none of us is troubled about a paralysis of the soul.
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Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
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No matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person.
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