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Epictetus Quote - Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

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All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
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Acceptance Heaven Life Man Religion Tolerance
Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.
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Authentic Condition Happiness Independence Inspirational
Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power.
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Arise Control Neglect Power Suffering Try
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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Attention Belong Business Concern Focus True
Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
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Explanation Express Philosophy
Only the educated are free.
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Education Freedom One Liner
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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Attention Belong Business Concern Focus True
Don’t live by your own rules, but in harmony with nature.
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Harmony Inspirational Live Nature Rule
Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.
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Consider Listen Need Philosophy Practice
We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.
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Event Judgement Life Live Suffering
What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
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Attitude Concern Human Nature People Thinking
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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Aspire Extraordinary Inspirational Time Vague Wise
Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
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Freedom Inspirational Live Right Satisfaction
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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Ears Giving Hear Nature Speak Tongue
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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Attention Choose Expose Giving Self Love Yourself
Try not to react merely in the moment. Pull back from the situation. Take a wider view. Compose yourself.
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Moments Patience Reaction Situation Try Yourself
Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
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Attitude Inspirational Men Thinking Trouble
Desire and happiness cannot live together.
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Desire Happiness Live One Liner Togetherness
We can’t control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character.
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Character Control Effort Impression
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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Carry Focus Greatness Inspirational Need Seed
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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Grief Happiness Man Rejoice Satisfaction Wise
No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.
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Advantage Change Happen Inspirational Matter Power
Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
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Appointment Arrive Business Event Happen
Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
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Circumstance Deep Himself Man Mask Reveal
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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Goals Influence Lie Life Please Purpose
Books are the training weights of the mind.
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Book Mind One Liner Training Weight
All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
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One Liner Philosophy Reality Sustain

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