Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.
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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Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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It is more necessary for the soul to be cured than the body; for it is better to die than to live badly.
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If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
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Attach yourself to what is spiritually superior, regardless of what other people think or do. Hold to your true aspirations no matter what is going on around you.
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We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.
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Difficulty shows what men are.
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Demand not that things happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do, and you will go on well.
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The best place to get help is from yourself.
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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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Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?
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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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The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will.
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First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
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Books are the training weights of the mind.
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