Demand not that things happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do, and you will go on well.
EPICTETUSIt’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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Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.
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To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.
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No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.
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Don’t consent to be hurt and you won’t be hurt – this is a choice over which you have control.
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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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The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
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Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
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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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Don’t live by your own rules, but in harmony with nature.
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Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
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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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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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Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
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All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
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In prosperity it is very easy to find a friend; but in adversity it is the most difficult of all things.
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