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Epictetus Quote - The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.

The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.

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Attach yourself to what is spiritually superior, regardless of what other people think or do. Hold to your true aspirations no matter what is going on around you.
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Don’t be concerned with other people’s impressions of you. They are dazzled and deluded by appearances. Stick with your purpose. This alone will strengthen your will and give your life coherence.
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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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No man is free who is not master of himself.
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If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
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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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Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
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Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle.
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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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Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.
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A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
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He who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.
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Wisdom means understanding without any doubt that circumstances do not rise to meet our expectations. Events happen as they may. People behave as they will.
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Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.
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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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