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.
EPICTETUSThere 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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What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
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Desire and happiness cannot live together.
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The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
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The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
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When you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
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He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
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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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It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
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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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Don’t demand or expect that events happen as you would wish them do. Accept events as they actually happen. That way, peace is possible.
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Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.
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The best place to get help is from yourself.
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Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
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Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
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