What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
EPICTETUSNo great thing is created suddenly. There must be time. Give your best and always be kind.
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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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It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous, even death is terrible only if we fear it.
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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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Difficulty shows what men are.
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Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.
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You have been given your own work to do. Get to it right now, do your best at it, and don’t be concerned with who is watching you. Create your own merit.
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Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.
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The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
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You can be happy if you know this secret: Some things are within your power to control and some things are not.
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Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
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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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If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
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Other people’s views and troubles can be contagious. Don’t sabotage yourself by unwittingly adopting negative, unproductive attitudes through your associations with others.
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A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
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It is better to die of hunger having lived without grief and fear, than to live with a troubled spirit, amid abundance.
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