You can be happy if you know this secret: Some things are within your power to control and some things are not.
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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.
More Epictetus Quotes
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You can be happy if you know this secret: Some things are within your power to control and some things are not.
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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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Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control.
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In prosperity it is very easy to find a friend; but in adversity it is the most difficult of all things.
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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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Freedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
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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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A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
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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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Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?
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We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.
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Do not try to seem wise to others.
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Don’t live by your own rules, but in harmony with nature.
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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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