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.
EPICTETUSMake the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
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Happiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing.
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It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
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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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Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
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There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will.
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No matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person.
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We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.
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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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If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
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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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We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.
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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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People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.
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He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
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In prosperity it is very easy to find a friend; but in adversity it is the most difficult of all things.
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