Books are the training weights of the mind.
EPICTETUSWealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
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Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.
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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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Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.
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Don’t live by your own rules, but in harmony with nature.
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Only the educated are free.
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It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
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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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Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.
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Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power.
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We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.
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Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.
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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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Try not to react merely in the moment. Pull back from the situation. Take a wider view. Compose yourself.
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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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Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
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