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Epictetus Quote - Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!

Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!

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To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.
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Deed Inspirational Life Live Virtue
Desire and happiness cannot live together.
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Desire Happiness Live One Liner Togetherness
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 should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.
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Believe Confidence Faith Inspirational Time
Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness.
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Average Blame Character Foolish People Wise
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
Happiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing.
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Consequences Fulfillment Happiness Positive
People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.
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Disturb Human Nature Imagination People
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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Adopt Association Attitude Negative People Trouble
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
What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
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Attitude Concern Human Nature People Thinking
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
Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
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Appointment Arrive Business Event Happen
No great thing is created suddenly. There must be time. Give your best and always be kind.
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Business Entrepreneur Giving Inspirational Patience Time
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
Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power.
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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
If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
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Bad Believe Goodness Improvement One Liner
Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle.
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Beginning Clear Freedom Happiness Principle Understand
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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Body Cure Die Live Necessary Soul
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
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Control Expectation Inspirational Life Value
We all dread a bodily paralysis, and would make use of every contrivance to avoid it; but none of us is troubled about a paralysis of the soul.
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Avoid Body Pralysis Soul Trouble
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
Difficulty shows what men are.
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Character Difficult Men One Liner
Don’t live by your own rules, but in harmony with nature.
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Harmony Inspirational Live Nature Rule
When we blather about trivial things, we ourselves become trivial, for our attention gets taken up with trivialities. You become what you give your attention to.
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Attention Character Giving Inspirational Ourselves
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

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