The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
EPICTETUSWe can’t control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character.
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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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It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
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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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To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.
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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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No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.
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Have the wisdom to know what cannot be changed, and the strength to change what can.
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Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.
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Do not try to seem wise to others.
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Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle.
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Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
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He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
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Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
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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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Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.
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