Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
EPICTETUSWhoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.
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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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Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.
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I laugh at those who think they can damage me. They do not know who I am, they do not know what I think, they cannot even touch the things which are really mine and with which I live.
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No great thing is created suddenly. There must be time. Give your best and always be kind.
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Only the educated are free.
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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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It is better to die of hunger having lived without grief and fear, than to live with a troubled spirit, amid abundance.
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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
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We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.
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Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
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It is unrealistc to expect people to see you as you see yourself.
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By accepting life’s limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.
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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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Desire and happiness cannot live together.
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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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