Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
EPICTETUSFreedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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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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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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What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
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Have the wisdom to know what cannot be changed, and the strength to change what can.
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Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.
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Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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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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People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.
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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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A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
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Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
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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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He who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.
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Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
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We all dread a bodily paralysis, and would make use of every contrivance to avoid it; but none of us is troubled about a paralysis of the soul.
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