If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
EPICTETUSGive me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
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You become what you give your attention to. If you yourself don’t choose what thoughts and images you expose yourself to, someone else will, and their motives may not be the highest.
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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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Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
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Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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Renew every day your conversation with God: Do this even in preference to eating. Think more often of God than you breathe.
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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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Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
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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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A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
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If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
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It is unrealistc to expect people to see you as you see yourself.
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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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It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.
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Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
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