No great thing is created suddenly. There must be time. Give your best and always be kind.
EPICTETUSWealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
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To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.
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The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
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Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
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The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
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If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
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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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He who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.
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He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
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We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.
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Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
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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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Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
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Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
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A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
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Try not to react merely in the moment. Pull back from the situation. Take a wider view. Compose yourself.
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