Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
EPICTETUSWe suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.
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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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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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We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.
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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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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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It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
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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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The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
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The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
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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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Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?
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It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous, even death is terrible only if we fear it.
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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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What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
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Don’t consent to be hurt and you won’t be hurt – this is a choice over which you have control.
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