When you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
EPICTETUSMen are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
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Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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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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It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.
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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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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 world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
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If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
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Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
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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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You have been given your own work to do. Get to it right now, do your best at it, and don’t be concerned with who is watching you. Create your own merit.
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You can be happy if you know this secret: Some things are within your power to control and some things are not.
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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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It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
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