Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
EPICTETUSOther 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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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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Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
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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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Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?
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I laugh at those who think they can damage me. They do not know who I am, they do not know what I think, they cannot even touch the things which are really mine and with which I live.
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It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.
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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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He who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.
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Wisdom means understanding without any doubt that circumstances do not rise to meet our expectations. Events happen as they may. People behave as they will.
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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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Don’t live by your own rules, but in harmony with nature.
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If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
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The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
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Desire and happiness cannot live together.
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