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Happiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing.

Epictetus

If you wish to live a life free from sorrow, think of what is going to happen as if it had already happened.
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Freedom Inspirational Let Go Life Live Sorrow
Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
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Happen Hustle Motivational Philosophy Power Work Hard
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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Adversity Difficult Finding Friendship Prosperity
A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
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Anchor Hope Inspirational Life Ride Ship
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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Character Determination Imagination Personality Role Model Yourself
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
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Death Depression Fear Love Pain
To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.
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Deed Inspirational Life Live Virtue
If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
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Content Fools Improvement Stupid Want
Don’t consent to be hurt and you won’t be hurt – this is a choice over which you have control.
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Choice Consent Control Healing Hurt Inspirational
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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Aspiration People Regard Spiritual Superior Yourself
I laugh at those who think they can damage me. They do not know who I am, they do not know what I think, they cannot even touch the things which are really mine and with which I live.
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Attitude Damage Laugh Live Thinking
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
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Consist Greatness Minimalism Possession Want Wealth
Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?
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Appearance Done Goodness Inspirational Man Sake
Other people’s views and troubles can be contagious. Don’t sabotage yourself by unwittingly adopting negative, unproductive attitudes through your associations with others.
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Adopt Association Attitude Negative People Trouble
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will.
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Beyong Cease Happiness Let Go Power Worry
Try not to react merely in the moment. Pull back from the situation. Take a wider view. Compose yourself.
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Moments Patience Reaction Situation Try Yourself

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