Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
EPICTETUSCircumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
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Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
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Don’t live by your own rules, but in harmony with nature.
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A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
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Books are the training weights of the mind.
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First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
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Difficulty shows what men are.
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He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
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Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle.
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If you seek Truth, you will not seek to gain a victory by every possible means; and when you have found Truth, you need not fear being defeated.
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It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
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What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
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In trying to please other people, we find ourselves misdirected toward what lies outside our sphere of influence. In doing so, we lose our hold on our lifes purpose.
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Happiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing.
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The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
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