Books are the training weights of the mind.
EPICTETUSThe greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
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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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No great thing is created suddenly. There must be time. Give your best and always be kind.
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Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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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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Don’t demand or expect that events happen as you would wish them do. Accept events as they actually happen. That way, peace is possible.
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Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
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When we blather about trivial things, we ourselves become trivial, for our attention gets taken up with trivialities. You become what you give your attention to.
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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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First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
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Have the wisdom to know what cannot be changed, and the strength to change what can.
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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
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The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
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Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
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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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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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