No matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person.
EPICTETUSHappiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing.
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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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Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
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The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
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Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
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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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We can’t control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character.
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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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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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If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
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The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
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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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A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
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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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Demand not that things happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do, and you will go on well.
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Do not try to seem wise to others.
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