If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
EPICTETUSAuthentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.
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Only the educated are free.
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Books are the training weights of the mind.
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Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.
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Difficulty shows what men are.
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Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
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Don’t live by your own rules, but in harmony with nature.
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By accepting life’s limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.
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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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The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
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It is unrealistc to expect people to see you as you see yourself.
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First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
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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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Try not to react merely in the moment. Pull back from the situation. Take a wider view. Compose yourself.
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The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
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