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Epictetus Quote - It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.

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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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Attention Belong Business Concern Focus True
Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.
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Consider Listen Need Philosophy Practice
Books are the training weights of the mind.
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Book Mind One Liner Training Weight
If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
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Content Fools Improvement Stupid Want
To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.
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Deed Inspirational Life Live Virtue
Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
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Appointment Arrive Business Event Happen
In trying to please other people, we find ourselves misdirected toward what lies outside our sphere of influence. In doing so, we lose our hold on our lifes purpose.
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Goals Influence Lie Life Please Purpose
First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
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Believe Motivational Yourself
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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Attitude Control Death Fear Nature Terrible
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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Carry Focus Greatness Inspirational Need Seed
Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
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Character Determination Imagination Personality Role Model Yourself
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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Attention Belong Business Concern Focus True
Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?
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Appearance Done Goodness Inspirational Man Sake
It is better to die of hunger having lived without grief and fear, than to live with a troubled spirit, amid abundance.
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Abundance Die Fear Hunger Live Trouble
Don’t demand or expect that events happen as you would wish them do. Accept events as they actually happen. That way, peace is possible.
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Acceptance Demand Expectation Happen Peace Possible
No matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person.
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Finding Healing Inspirational Person Yourself
Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.
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Authentic Condition Happiness Independence Inspirational
People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.
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Disturb Human Nature Imagination People
If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
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Evil Laugh Speak True Yourself
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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Demand Happen Inspirational Satisfaction
If you wish to live a life free from sorrow, think of what is going to happen as if it had already happened.
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Freedom Inspirational Let Go Life Live Sorrow
The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
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Difficult Motivational Pilot Reputation Skill Storm
All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
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One Liner Philosophy Reality Sustain
Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
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Account Giving Inspirational Life Positive
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
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Company Friendship Key People Presence
Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.
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Ears Giving Hear Nature Speak Tongue
Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
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Freedom Inspirational Live Right Satisfaction

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