Freedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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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What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
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We all carry the seeds of greatness within us, but we need an image as a point of focus in order that they may sprout.
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Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
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Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness.
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It is more necessary for the soul to be cured than the body; for it is better to die than to live badly.
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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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If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
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Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
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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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No matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person.
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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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He who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.
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We all dread a bodily paralysis, and would make use of every contrivance to avoid it; but none of us is troubled about a paralysis of the soul.
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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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