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Epictetus Quote - The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.

The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.

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Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness.
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Average Blame Character Foolish People Wise
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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Aspiration People Regard Spiritual Superior Yourself
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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Angry Disturb Master Permit Person Yourself
Desire and happiness cannot live together.
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Desire Happiness Live One Liner Togetherness
People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.
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Disturb Human Nature Imagination People
Do not try to seem wise to others.
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Inspirational Life One Liner Try Wise
Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
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Anxiety Imagination Man Problem Worry
It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous, even death is terrible only if we fear it.
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Attitude Control Death Fear Nature Terrible
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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Essense Happiness Inspirational Man Philosophy Possible
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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Body Cure Die Live Necessary Soul
Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.
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Consider Listen Need Philosophy Practice
What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
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Attitude Concern Human Nature People Thinking
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
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Death Depression Fear Love Pain
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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Acceptance Demand Expectation Happen Peace Possible
Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle.
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Beginning Clear Freedom Happiness Principle Understand
All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
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One Liner Philosophy Reality Sustain

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