The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
EPICTETUSIt is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
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Books are the training weights of the mind.
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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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Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.
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No man is free who is not master of himself.
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Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
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Renew every day your conversation with God: Do this even in preference to eating. Think more often of God than you breathe.
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Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.
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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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Happiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing.
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Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle.
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Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control.
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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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Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.
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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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We can’t control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character.
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