To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.
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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Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
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Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
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Desire and happiness cannot live together.
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Freedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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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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People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.
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Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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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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Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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You can be happy if you know this secret: Some things are within your power to control and some things are not.
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Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
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We all carry the seeds of greatness within us, but we need an image as a point of focus in order that they may sprout.
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The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
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Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.
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