Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
EPICTETUSHappiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing.
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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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Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.
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The best place to get help is from yourself.
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Desire and happiness cannot live together.
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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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Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
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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 man is free who is not master of himself.
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Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.
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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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Have the wisdom to know what cannot be changed, and the strength to change what can.
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Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
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Don’t live by your own rules, but in harmony with nature.
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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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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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The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
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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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We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.
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A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
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First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
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Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
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All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
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To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.
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When you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
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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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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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