In prosperity it is very easy to find a friend; but in adversity it is the most difficult of all things.
EPICTETUSImagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
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Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
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We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.
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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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Difficulty shows what men are.
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No man is free who is not master of himself.
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Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness.
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Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
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Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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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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Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
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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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Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
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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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Other people’s views and troubles can be contagious. Don’t sabotage yourself by unwittingly adopting negative, unproductive attitudes through your associations with others.
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