It is better to die of hunger having lived without grief and fear, than to live with a troubled spirit, amid abundance.
EPICTETUSDon’t live by your own rules, but in harmony with nature.
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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 matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person.
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Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
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Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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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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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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Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
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Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
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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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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
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Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
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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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Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.
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People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.
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To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.
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