Do not try to seem wise to others.
EPICTETUSEvents do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
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A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
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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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What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
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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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Try not to react merely in the moment. Pull back from the situation. Take a wider view. Compose yourself.
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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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Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness.
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If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
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Freedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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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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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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Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
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People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.
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Happiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing.
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The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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