Books are the training weights of the mind.
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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First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
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It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
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Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
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It is more necessary for the soul to be cured than the body; for it is better to die than to live badly.
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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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Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
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We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.
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Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.
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The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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He who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.
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Every difficulty in life presents us with an opportunity to turn inward and to invoke our own submerged inner resources. The trials we endure can and should introduce us to our strengths.
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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 religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
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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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Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
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