Happiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing.
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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We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.
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We can’t control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character.
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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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Don’t live by your own rules, but in harmony with nature.
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Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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Difficulty shows what men are.
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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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It is unrealistc to expect people to see you as you see yourself.
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No man is free who is not master of himself.
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The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.
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Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.
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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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To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.
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Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
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