Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
EPICTETUSNo matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person.
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Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
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Freedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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The best place to get help is from yourself.
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Happiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing.
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The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
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Books are the training weights of the mind.
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Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power.
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Attach yourself to what is spiritually superior, regardless of what other people think or do. Hold to your true aspirations no matter what is going on around you.
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Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
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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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Try not to react merely in the moment. Pull back from the situation. Take a wider view. Compose yourself.
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Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.
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We can’t control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character.
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Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
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Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
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