Desire and happiness cannot live together.
EPICTETUSWe should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.
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You become what you give your attention to. If you yourself don’t choose what thoughts and images you expose yourself to, someone else will, and their motives may not be the highest.
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Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness.
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Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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No great thing is created suddenly. There must be time. Give your best and always be kind.
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Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
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Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
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Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?
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Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
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Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.
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Other people’s views and troubles can be contagious. Don’t sabotage yourself by unwittingly adopting negative, unproductive attitudes through your associations with others.
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Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.
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Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.
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Freedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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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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Don’t live by your own rules, but in harmony with nature.
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We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.
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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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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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Try not to react merely in the moment. Pull back from the situation. Take a wider view. Compose yourself.
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Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.
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The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
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It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
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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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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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What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
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