In prosperity it is very easy to find a friend; but in adversity it is the most difficult of all things.
EPICTETUSSeek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.
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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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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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Renew every day your conversation with God: Do this even in preference to eating. Think more often of God than you breathe.
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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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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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It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
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The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
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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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It’s so simple really: If you say you’re going to do something, do it. If you start something, finish it.
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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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It takes more than just a good looking body. You’ve got to have the heart and soul to go with it.
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First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
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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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Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
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Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
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