Renew every day your conversation with God: Do this even in preference to eating. Think more often of God than you breathe.
EPICTETUSMake the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
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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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Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle.
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When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it; you can either accept it or resent it.
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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 impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
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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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The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
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Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.
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Other people’s views and troubles can be contagious. Don’t sabotage yourself by unwittingly adopting negative, unproductive attitudes through your associations with others.
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All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
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If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
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Books are the training weights of the mind.
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Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.
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Happiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing.
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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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