There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will.
EPICTETUSThe greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
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People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.
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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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No man is free who is not master of himself.
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If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
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No matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person.
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The best place to get help is from yourself.
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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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Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
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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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By accepting life’s limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.
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The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
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Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.
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He who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.
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