When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it; you can either accept it or resent it.
EPICTETUSIt is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
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It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
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Happiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing.
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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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Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.
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Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
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Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
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Only the educated are free.
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Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.
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When you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
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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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We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.
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Have the wisdom to know what cannot be changed, and the strength to change what can.
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We can’t control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character.
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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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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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