He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
EPICTETUSYou 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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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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If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
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If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
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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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What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
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Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
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By accepting life’s limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.
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Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
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Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.
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No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.
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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
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Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power.
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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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Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle.
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Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
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