When we blather about trivial things, we ourselves become trivial, for our attention gets taken up with trivialities. You become what you give your attention to.
EPICTETUSMake the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
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If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
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The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
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All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
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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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It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous, even death is terrible only if we fear it.
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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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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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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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Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.
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Books are the training weights of the mind.
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Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
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The best place to get help is from yourself.
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Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
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People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.
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Desire and happiness cannot live together.
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