All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
EPICTETUSHe is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
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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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If you seek Truth, you will not seek to gain a victory by every possible means; and when you have found Truth, you need not fear being defeated.
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Difficulty shows what men are.
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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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Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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The best place to get help is from yourself.
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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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Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
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A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
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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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The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
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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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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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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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Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.
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