It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
EPICTETUSGive me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
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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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Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control.
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If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
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No matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person.
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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
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You can be happy if you know this secret: Some things are within your power to control and some things are not.
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Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
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It’s so simple really: If you say you’re going to do something, do it. If you start something, finish it.
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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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If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
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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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Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
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The best place to get help is from yourself.
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Happiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing.
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Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness.
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