Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
EPICTETUSMake the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
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Attach yourself to what is spiritually superior, regardless of what other people think or do. Hold to your true aspirations no matter what is going on around you.
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No man is free who is not master of himself.
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The 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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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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Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle.
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The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
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Do not try to seem wise to others.
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If you wish to live a life free from sorrow, think of what is going to happen as if it had already happened.
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Books are the training weights of the mind.
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Happiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing.
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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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Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
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We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.
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Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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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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