Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
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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Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
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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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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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The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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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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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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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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Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power.
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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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Don’t live by your own rules, but in harmony with nature.
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Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.
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Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
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We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.
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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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Do not try to seem wise to others.
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It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.
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Happiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing.
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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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Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
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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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There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will.
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No man is free who is not master of himself.
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Desire and happiness cannot live together.
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Renew every day your conversation with God: Do this even in preference to eating. Think more often of God than you breathe.
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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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