It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.
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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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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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 should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.
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Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
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No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.
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First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
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Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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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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It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
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Do not try to seem wise to others.
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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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He who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.
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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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You can be happy if you know this secret: Some things are within your power to control and some things are not.
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