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Epictetus Quote - 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.

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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It’s time to stop being vague. If you wish to be an extraordinary person, if you wish to be wise, then you should explicitly identify the kind of person you aspire to become.
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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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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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The best place to get help is from yourself.
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Only the educated are free.
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When you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
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A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
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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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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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Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
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Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle.
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It takes more than just a good looking body. You’ve got to have the heart and soul to go with it.
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Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
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Freedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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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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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
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We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.
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Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
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Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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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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Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
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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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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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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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Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness.
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