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.
EPICTETUSWe should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.
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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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We can’t control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character.
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If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
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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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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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Books are the training weights of the mind.
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Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
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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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If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
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Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.
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It 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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He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
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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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