Renew every day your conversation with God: Do this even in preference to eating. Think more often of God than you breathe.
EPICTETUSIt is more necessary for the soul to be cured than the body; for it is better to die than to live badly.
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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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We all carry the seeds of greatness within us, but we need an image as a point of focus in order that they may sprout.
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Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
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Don’t live by your own rules, but in harmony with nature.
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First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
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Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
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To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.
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Freedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it; you can either accept it or resent 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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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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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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Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.
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Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
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Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
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