Desire and happiness cannot live together.
EPICTETUSDon’t be concerned with other people’s impressions of you. They are dazzled and deluded by appearances. Stick with your purpose. This alone will strengthen your will and give your life coherence.
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First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
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To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.
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No man is free who is not master of himself.
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He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
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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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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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Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
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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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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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By accepting life’s limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.
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Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness.
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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’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
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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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The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
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Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
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Do not try to seem wise to others.
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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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Only the educated are free.
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The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
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Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
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We all carry the seeds of greatness within us, but we need an image as a point of focus in order that they may sprout.
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It is unrealistc to expect people to see you as you see 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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All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
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He who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.
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