No great thing is created suddenly. There must be time. Give your best and always be kind.
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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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 unrealistc to expect people to see you as you see yourself.
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It’s time to stop being vague. If you wish to be an extraordinary person, if you wish to be wise, then you should explicitly identify the kind of person you aspire to become.
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Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
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It’s so simple really: If you say you’re going to do something, do it. If you start something, finish it.
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Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
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Difficulty shows what men are.
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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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By accepting life’s limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.
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Try not to react merely in the moment. Pull back from the situation. Take a wider view. Compose yourself.
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We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.
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Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
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Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
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First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
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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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Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
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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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When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it; you can either accept it or resent it.
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Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?
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The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
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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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If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
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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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People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.
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Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
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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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