Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
EPICTETUSAll philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
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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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To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.
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Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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Have the wisdom to know what cannot be changed, and the strength to change what can.
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Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
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Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
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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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If you wish to live a life free from sorrow, think of what is going to happen as if it had already happened.
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Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle.
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It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous, even death is terrible only if we fear it.
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Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
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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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First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
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All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
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When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it; you can either accept it or resent it.
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If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
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We all carry the seeds of greatness within us, but we need an image as a point of focus in order that they may sprout.
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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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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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Difficulty shows what men are.
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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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Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
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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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Freedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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Don’t consent to be hurt and you won’t be hurt – this is a choice over which you have control.
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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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