It is unrealistc to expect people to see you as you see yourself.
EPICTETUSWe should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.
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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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Desire and happiness cannot live together.
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If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
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Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.
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Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.
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Don’t be concerned with other people’s impressions of you. They are dazzled and deluded by appearances. Stick with your purpose. This alone will strengthen your will and give your life coherence.
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Happiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing.
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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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It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
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Wisdom means understanding without any doubt that circumstances do not rise to meet our expectations. Events happen as they may. People behave as they will.
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Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
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Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.
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Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
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Difficulty shows what men are.
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Books are the training weights of the mind.
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