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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Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.
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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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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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Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
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Only the educated are free.
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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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Don’t live by your own rules, but in harmony with nature.
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Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.
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We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.
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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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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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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
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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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You become what you give your attention to. If you yourself don’t choose what thoughts and images you expose yourself to, someone else will, and their motives may not be the highest.
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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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Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
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Desire and happiness cannot live together.
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We can’t control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character.
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We all carry the seeds of greatness within us, but we need an image as a point of focus in order that they may sprout.
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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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No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.
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Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
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Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
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In trying to please other people, we find ourselves misdirected toward what lies outside our sphere of influence. In doing so, we lose our hold on our lifes purpose.
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Books are the training weights of the mind.
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All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
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