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.
EPICTETUSWe 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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It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
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It is unrealistc to expect people to see you as you see yourself.
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Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.
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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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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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Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.
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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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When we blather about trivial things, we ourselves become trivial, for our attention gets taken up with trivialities. You become what you give your attention to.
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It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.
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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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Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle.
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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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What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
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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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