In prosperity it is very easy to find a friend; but in adversity it is the most difficult of all things.
EPICTETUSWe suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.
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Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
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All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
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The best place to get help is from yourself.
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I laugh at those who think they can damage me. They do not know who I am, they do not know what I think, they cannot even touch the things which are really mine and with which I live.
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Difficulty shows what men are.
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Do not try to seem wise to others.
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Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
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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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Other people’s views and troubles can be contagious. Don’t sabotage yourself by unwittingly adopting negative, unproductive attitudes through your associations with others.
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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
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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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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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Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
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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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Freedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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