The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
EPICTETUSMake the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
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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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The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
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Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.
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In trying to please other people, we find ourselves misdirected toward what lies outside our sphere of influence. In doing so, we lose our hold on our lifes purpose.
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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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First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
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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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You become what you give your attention to. If you yourself don’t choose what thoughts and images you expose yourself to, someone else will, and their motives may not be the highest.
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No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.
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What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
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Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.
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Books are the training weights of the mind.
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All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
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If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
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A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
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