What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
EPICTETUSWhat concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
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It is unrealistc to expect people to see you as you see yourself.
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To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.
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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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He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
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Every difficulty in life presents us with an opportunity to turn inward and to invoke our own submerged inner resources. The trials we endure can and should introduce us to our strengths.
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Have the wisdom to know what cannot be changed, and the strength to change what can.
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Desire and happiness cannot live together.
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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
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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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Only the educated are free.
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We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.
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The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
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If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
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If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
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Do not try to seem wise to others.
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