It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
EPICTETUSWealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
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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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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 takes more than just a good looking body. You’ve got to have the heart and soul to go with it.
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The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
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Freedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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Attach yourself to what is spiritually superior, regardless of what other people think or do. Hold to your true aspirations no matter what is going on around you.
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The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
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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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It’s time to stop being vague. If you wish to be an extraordinary person, if you wish to be wise, then you should explicitly identify the kind of person you aspire to become.
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Don’t live by your own rules, but in harmony with nature.
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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
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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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A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
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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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He who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.
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