Don’t demand or expect that events happen as you would wish them do. Accept events as they actually happen. That way, peace is possible.
EPICTETUSWealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
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Only the educated are free.
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Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
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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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Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
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Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
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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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What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
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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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When you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
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No matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person.
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If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
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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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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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Difficulty shows what men are.
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If you seek Truth, you will not seek to gain a victory by every possible means; and when you have found Truth, you need not fear being defeated.
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