If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
EPICTETUSIt 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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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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A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
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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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Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
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Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
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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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No man is free who is not master of himself.
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The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
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Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.
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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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Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
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Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
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All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
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All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
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