Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
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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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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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
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Freedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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Only the educated are free.
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It takes more than just a good looking body. You’ve got to have the heart and soul to go with it.
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A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
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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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Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.
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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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Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
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Every difficulty in life presents us with an opportunity to turn inward and to invoke our own submerged inner resources. The trials we endure can and should introduce us to our strengths.
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If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
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Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
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It’s so simple really: If you say you’re going to do something, do it. If you start something, finish it.
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Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle.
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