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We can’t control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character.

Epictetus

I laugh at those who think they can damage me. They do not know who I am, they do not know what I think, they cannot even touch the things which are really mine and with which I live.
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Attitude Damage Laugh Live Thinking
The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
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Difficult Motivational Pilot Reputation Skill Storm
Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
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Account Giving Inspirational Life Positive
First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
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Believe Motivational Yourself
What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
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Attitude Concern Human Nature People Thinking
It is better to die of hunger having lived without grief and fear, than to live with a troubled spirit, amid abundance.
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Abundance Die Fear Hunger Live Trouble
If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
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Evil Laugh Speak True Yourself
We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.
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Believe Confidence Faith Inspirational Time
Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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Control Freedom Goals Life Win Worth
It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.
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Attitude Insult Let Go Opinion Philosophy Strike
Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
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Account Giving Inspirational Life Positive
Happiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing.
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Consequences Fulfillment Happiness Positive
People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.
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Disturb Human Nature Imagination People
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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Carry Focus Greatness Inspirational Need Seed
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
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Control Expectation Inspirational Life Value
If you seek Truth, you will not seek to gain a victory by every possible means; and when you have found Truth, you need not fear being defeated.
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Defeat Fear Gain Seek Truth Victory

We can’t control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character.

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