You can be happy if you know this secret: Some things are within your power to control and some things are not.
EPICTETUSIf you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
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Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
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To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.
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The best place to get help is from yourself.
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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
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Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
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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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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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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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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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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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It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
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We all carry the seeds of greatness within us, but we need an image as a point of focus in order that they may sprout.
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No great thing is created suddenly. There must be time. Give your best and always be kind.
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Don’t live by your own rules, but in harmony with nature.
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