First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
EPICTETUSEvery 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.
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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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To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.
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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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People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.
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Only the educated are free.
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Happiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing.
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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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The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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No matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person.
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It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.
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Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle.
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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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We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.
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He who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.
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Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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