The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
EPICTETUSFreedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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No great thing is created suddenly. There must be time. Give your best and always be kind.
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Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?
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Freedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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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 your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.
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You have been given your own work to do. Get to it right now, do your best at it, and don’t be concerned with who is watching you. Create your own merit.
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It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.
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It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous, even death is terrible only if we fear it.
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Wisdom means understanding without any doubt that circumstances do not rise to meet our expectations. Events happen as they may. People behave as they will.
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When we blather about trivial things, we ourselves become trivial, for our attention gets taken up with trivialities. You become what you give your attention to.
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Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
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Difficulty shows what men are.
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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
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Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
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All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
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