Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
EPICTETUSWhen you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
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Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle.
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Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
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Happiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing.
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The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
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Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
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Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
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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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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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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
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A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
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In prosperity it is very easy to find a friend; but in adversity it is the most difficult of all things.
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When you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
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Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control.
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Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.
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