Ruin and recovering are both from within.
EPICTETUSIf you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
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To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.
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Wisdom means understanding without any doubt that circumstances do not rise to meet our expectations. Events happen as they may. People behave as they will.
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Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.
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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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We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.
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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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If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
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It is unrealistc to expect people to see you as you see yourself.
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Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
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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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If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
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Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
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He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
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No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.
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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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