Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
EPICTETUSHappiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle.
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The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
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He who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.
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Renew every day your conversation with God: Do this even in preference to eating. Think more often of God than you breathe.
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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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Don’t be concerned with other people’s impressions of you. They are dazzled and deluded by appearances. Stick with your purpose. This alone will strengthen your will and give your life coherence.
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The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
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Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.
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Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
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Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
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No great thing is created suddenly. There must be time. Give your best and always be kind.
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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
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Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
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The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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There 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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We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.
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