All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
EPICTETUSWealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
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It’s so simple really: If you say you’re going to do something, do it. If you start something, finish it.
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No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.
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We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.
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Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
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Do not try to seem wise to others.
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If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
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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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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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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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Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.
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Every difficulty in life presents us with an opportunity to turn inward and to invoke our own submerged inner resources. The trials we endure can and should introduce us to our strengths.
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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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Wisdom means understanding without any doubt that circumstances do not rise to meet our expectations. Events happen as they may. People behave as they will.
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Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?
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The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
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