When we blather about trivial things, we ourselves become trivial, for our attention gets taken up with trivialities. You become what you give your attention to.
EPICTETUSIs freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
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If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
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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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All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
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Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
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If you seek Truth, you will not seek to gain a victory by every possible means; and when you have found Truth, you need not fear being defeated.
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Difficulty shows what men are.
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Other people’s views and troubles can be contagious. Don’t sabotage yourself by unwittingly adopting negative, unproductive attitudes through your associations with others.
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It is unrealistc to expect people to see you as you see yourself.
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Demand not that things happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do, and you will go on well.
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You become what you give your attention to. If you yourself don’t choose what thoughts and images you expose yourself to, someone else will, and their motives may not be the highest.
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A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
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Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
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We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.
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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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We all carry the seeds of greatness within us, but we need an image as a point of focus in order that they may sprout.
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