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It is unrealistc to expect people to see you as you see yourself.

Epictetus

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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Character Determination Imagination Personality Role Model Yourself
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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Aspiration People Regard Spiritual Superior Yourself
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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Attention Belong Business Concern Focus True
It is more necessary for the soul to be cured than the body; for it is better to die than to live badly.
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Body Cure Die Live Necessary Soul
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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Aspire Extraordinary Inspirational Time Vague Wise
People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.
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Disturb Human Nature Imagination People
If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
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Content Fools Improvement Stupid Want
Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.
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Authentic Condition Happiness Independence Inspirational
It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
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Handle Happen Inspirational Matter Reaction
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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Carry Focus Greatness Inspirational Need Seed
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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Avoid Body Pralysis Soul Trouble
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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Freedom Inspirational Let Go Life Live Sorrow
Every difficulty in life presents us with an opportunity to turn inward and to invoke our own submerged inner resources. The trials we endure can and should introduce us to our strengths.
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Endure Introduce Life Opportunity Resource Strength
Books are the training weights of the mind.
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Book Mind One Liner Training Weight
Don’t live by your own rules, but in harmony with nature.
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Harmony Inspirational Live Nature Rule
Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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Believe Healing One Liner Recover Ruin

It is unrealistc to expect people to see you as you see yourself.

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