What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
EPICTETUSIf you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
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To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.
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Difficulty shows what men are.
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A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
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People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.
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We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.
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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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It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
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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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Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.
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Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.
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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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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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In prosperity it is very easy to find a friend; but in adversity it is the most difficult of all things.
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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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Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
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