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.
EPICTETUSHe who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.
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Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.
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Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.
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It is more necessary for the soul to be cured than the body; for it is better to die than to live badly.
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It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
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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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The best place to get help is from yourself.
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The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
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Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?
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No matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person.
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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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No great thing is created suddenly. There must be time. Give your best and always be kind.
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We all dread a bodily paralysis, and would make use of every contrivance to avoid it; but none of us is troubled about a paralysis of the soul.
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He who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.
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Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
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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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