No man is free who is not master of himself.
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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Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control.
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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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Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.
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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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It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
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Don’t live by your own rules, but in harmony with nature.
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Books are the training weights of the mind.
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The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
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All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
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Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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No matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person.
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To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.
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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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We can’t control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character.
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Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
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