Only the educated are free.
EPICTETUSNo matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person.
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Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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It’s so simple really: If you say you’re going to do something, do it. If you start something, finish it.
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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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The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
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Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
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Happiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing.
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Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
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Don’t demand or expect that events happen as you would wish them do. Accept events as they actually happen. That way, peace is possible.
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Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.
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Books are the training weights of the mind.
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He who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.
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You can be happy if you know this secret: Some things are within your power to control and some things are not.
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It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
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Do not try to seem wise to others.
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