Don’t live by your own rules, but in harmony with nature.
EPICTETUSThe greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
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It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
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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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Do not try to seem wise to others.
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Happiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing.
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It takes more than just a good looking body. You’ve got to have the heart and soul to go with it.
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Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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We can’t control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character.
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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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Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness.
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Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
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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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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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Have the wisdom to know what cannot be changed, and the strength to change what can.
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Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.
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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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Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power.
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If you wish to live a life free from sorrow, think of what is going to happen as if it had already happened.
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Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
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Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control.
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Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
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Don’t be concerned with other people’s impressions of you. They are dazzled and deluded by appearances. Stick with your purpose. This alone will strengthen your will and give your life coherence.
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Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
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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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Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
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Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?
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