If you wish to live a life free from sorrow, think of what is going to happen as if it had already happened.
EPICTETUSGive me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
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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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Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle.
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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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If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
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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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Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.
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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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The best place to get help is from yourself.
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The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
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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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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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It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
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We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.
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Books are the training weights of the mind.
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By accepting life’s limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.
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