What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
EPICTETUSAll philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
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Freedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
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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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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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Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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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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If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
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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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Desire and happiness cannot live together.
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Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.
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No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.
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No man is free who is not master of himself.
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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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No matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person.
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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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