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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.

Epictetus

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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Attention Character Giving Inspirational Ourselves
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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Behaviour Circumstance Expectation People Understand Wisdom
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
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Company Friendship Key People Presence
Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.
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Ears Giving Hear Nature Speak Tongue
Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
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Anxiety Imagination Man Problem Worry
Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
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Accident Achievement Improvement Inspirational Luck Progress
Do not try to seem wise to others.
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Inspirational Life One Liner Try Wise
It is better to die of hunger having lived without grief and fear, than to live with a troubled spirit, amid abundance.
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Abundance Die Fear Hunger Live Trouble
By accepting life’s limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.
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Acceptance Fight Freedom Life Limitation Work
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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Attitude Damage Laugh Live Thinking
Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?
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Appearance Done Goodness Inspirational Man Sake
Demand not that things happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do, and you will go on well.
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Demand Happen Inspirational Satisfaction
It’s time to stop being vague. If you wish to be an extraordinary person, if you wish to be wise, then you should explicitly identify the kind of person you aspire to become.
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Aspire Extraordinary Inspirational Time Vague Wise
If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
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Book Poet Reading Writing
Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
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Appointment Arrive Business Event Happen
When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it; you can either accept it or resent it.
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Acceptance Attitude Happen Ignorance Power

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