You can be happy if you know this secret: Some things are within your power to control and some things are not.
EPICTETUSDon’t consent to be hurt and you won’t be hurt – this is a choice over which you have control.
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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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Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.
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It’s so simple really: If you say you’re going to do something, do it. If you start something, finish it.
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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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We all dread a bodily paralysis, and would make use of every contrivance to avoid it; but none of us is troubled about a paralysis of the soul.
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All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
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Other people’s views and troubles can be contagious. Don’t sabotage yourself by unwittingly adopting negative, unproductive attitudes through your associations with others.
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Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
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Difficulty shows what men are.
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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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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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Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
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If you wish to live a life free from sorrow, think of what is going to happen as if it had already happened.
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The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
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