No man is free who is not master of himself.
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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Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
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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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We can’t control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character.
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There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will.
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We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.
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It is more necessary for the soul to be cured than the body; for it is better to die than to live badly.
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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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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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Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.
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Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.
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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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If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
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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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What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
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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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