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.
EPICTETUSA ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
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Freedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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No matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person.
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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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What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
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Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
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Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness.
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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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Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control.
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Desire and happiness cannot live together.
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Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
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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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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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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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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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The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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