The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
EPICTETUSThe greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
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Don’t consent to be hurt and you won’t be hurt – this is a choice over which you have control.
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When you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
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Freedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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Don’t live by your own rules, but in harmony with nature.
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If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
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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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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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Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
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The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
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Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
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Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
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Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
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First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
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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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He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
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