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It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.

Epictetus

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
If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
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Book Poet Reading Writing
Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
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Attitude Inspirational Men Thinking Trouble
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
I laugh at those who think they can damage me. They do not know who I am, they do not know what I think, they cannot even touch the things which are really mine and with which I live.
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Attitude Damage Laugh Live Thinking
Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control.
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Control Hold Inspirational Positive Stop True
Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
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Circumstance Deep Himself Man Mask Reveal
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
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Consist Greatness Minimalism Possession Want Wealth
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
Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
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Accident Achievement Improvement Inspirational Luck Progress
A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
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Anchor Hope Inspirational Life Ride Ship
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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Essense Happiness Inspirational Man Philosophy Possible
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
Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
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Anxiety Imagination Man Problem Worry
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
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

It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.

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