A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
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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Happiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing.
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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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Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
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Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
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To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.
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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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Only the educated are free.
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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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Desire and happiness cannot live together.
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I laugh at those who think they can damage me. They do not know who I am, they do not know what I think, they cannot even touch the things which are really mine and with which I live.
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All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
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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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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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Have the wisdom to know what cannot be changed, and the strength to change what can.
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It’s so simple really: If you say you’re going to do something, do it. If you start something, finish it.
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