No matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person.
EPICTETUSThe key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
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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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What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
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First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
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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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There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will.
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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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Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control.
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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
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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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Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
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Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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When we blather about trivial things, we ourselves become trivial, for our attention gets taken up with trivialities. You become what you give your attention to.
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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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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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Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
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