The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
EPICTETUSFreedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
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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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If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
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Happiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing.
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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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The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
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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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The best place to get help is from yourself.
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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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Try not to react merely in the moment. Pull back from the situation. Take a wider view. Compose yourself.
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Don’t consent to be hurt and you won’t be hurt – this is a choice over which you have control.
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Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
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Renew every day your conversation with God: Do this even in preference to eating. Think more often of God than you breathe.
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Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
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Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
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