The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
EPICTETUSGive me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
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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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Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
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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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No great thing is created suddenly. There must be time. Give your best and always be kind.
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Books are the training weights of the mind.
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Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power.
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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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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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Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
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The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
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It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.
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All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
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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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The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.
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