The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
EPICTETUSDifficulty shows what men 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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It’s time to stop being vague. If you wish to be an extraordinary person, if you wish to be wise, then you should explicitly identify the kind of person you aspire to become.
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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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The best place to get help is from yourself.
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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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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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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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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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Freedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
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Difficulty shows what men are.
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Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
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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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It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
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You have been given your own work to do. Get to it right now, do your best at it, and don’t be concerned with who is watching you. Create your own merit.
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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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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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Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control.
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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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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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We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.
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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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In prosperity it is very easy to find a friend; but in adversity it is the most difficult of all things.
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Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
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Happiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing.
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