When you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
EPICTETUSKeep 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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Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
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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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In trying to please other people, we find ourselves misdirected toward what lies outside our sphere of influence. In doing so, we lose our hold on our lifes purpose.
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The best place to get help is from yourself.
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The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
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If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
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First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
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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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Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness.
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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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Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.
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We all carry the seeds of greatness within us, but we need an image as a point of focus in order that they may sprout.
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No matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person.
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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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