If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
EPICTETUSEvents do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
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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 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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It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
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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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Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
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If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
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Happiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing.
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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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It is unrealistc to expect people to see you as you see yourself.
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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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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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The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
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All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
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It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
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Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.
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Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
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No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.
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All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
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First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
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Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness.
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Only the educated are free.
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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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Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle.
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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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A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
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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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