If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
EPICTETUSAll philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
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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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Books are the training weights of the mind.
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The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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Renew every day your conversation with God: Do this even in preference to eating. Think more often of God than you breathe.
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He who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.
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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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Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle.
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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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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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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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Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
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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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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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If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
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