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.
EPICTETUSHappiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle.
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All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
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Only the educated are free.
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Difficulty shows what men are.
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Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
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It’s time to stop being vague. If you wish to be an extraordinary person, if you wish to be wise, then you should explicitly identify the kind of person you aspire to become.
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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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By accepting life’s limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.
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Other people’s views and troubles can be contagious. Don’t sabotage yourself by unwittingly adopting negative, unproductive attitudes through your associations with others.
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Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
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If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
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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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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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Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle.
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The best place to get help is from yourself.
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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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