Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
EPICTETUSDon’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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First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
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No man is free who is not master of himself.
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It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
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It is more necessary for the soul to be cured than the body; for it is better to die than to live badly.
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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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If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
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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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Happiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing.
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The best place to get help is from yourself.
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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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Only the educated are free.
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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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We all dread a bodily paralysis, and would make use of every contrivance to avoid it; but none of us is troubled about a paralysis of the soul.
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If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
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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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