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.
EPICTETUSHappiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle.
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Demand not that things happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do, and you will go on well.
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Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.
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Desire and happiness cannot live together.
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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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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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Have the wisdom to know what cannot be changed, and the strength to change what can.
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Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?
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Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power.
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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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Books are the training weights of the mind.
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Difficulty shows what men are.
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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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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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Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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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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