If you wish to live a life free from sorrow, think of what is going to happen as if it had already happened.
EPICTETUSSeek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.
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First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
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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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The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.
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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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No matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person.
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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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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 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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It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.
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When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it; you can either accept it or resent it.
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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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We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.
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Freedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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It is better to die of hunger having lived without grief and fear, than to live with a troubled spirit, amid abundance.
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It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
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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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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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Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle.
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Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
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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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Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
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Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
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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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