To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.
EPICTETUSThe 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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If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
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Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
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Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
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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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The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
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Try not to react merely in the moment. Pull back from the situation. Take a wider view. Compose yourself.
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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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Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.
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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.
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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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Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control.
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It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
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Desire and happiness cannot live together.
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