Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle.
EPICTETUSIt is unrealistc to expect people to see you as you see yourself.
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Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.
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To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.
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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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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.
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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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The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
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Freedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
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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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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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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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People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.
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Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
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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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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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Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power.
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No matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person.
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Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
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If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
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We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.
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All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
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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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Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
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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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The best place to get help is from yourself.
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