The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
EPICTETUSIf you seek Truth, you will not seek to gain a victory by every possible means; and when you have found Truth, you need not fear being defeated.
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Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.
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Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
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Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
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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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If you seek Truth, you will not seek to gain a victory by every possible means; and when you have found Truth, you need not fear being defeated.
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All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
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Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
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I laugh at those who think they can damage me. They do not know who I am, they do not know what I think, they cannot even touch the things which are really mine and with which I live.
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First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
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Books are the training weights of the mind.
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No man is free who is not master of himself.
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Desire and happiness cannot live together.
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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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Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.
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