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If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

Epictetus

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Never depend on the admiration of others for self-satisfaction. It is a fact of life that other people, even people who love you, will not necessarily agree with your ideas, understand you always, or share your enthusiasms.
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We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.
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These are the signs of a wise man: to reprove nobody, to praise nobody, to blame nobody, nor even to speak of himself or his own merits.
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Unremarkable lives are marked by the fear of not looking capable when trying something new.
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Contentment, as it is a short road and pleasant, has great delight and little trouble.
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It is not things in themselves which trouble us, but our opinions of things.
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Dare to look up to God and say, Deal with me in the future as Thou wilt I am of the same mind as Thou art I am Thine I refuse nothing that pleases Thee lead me where Thou wilt clothe me in any dress Thou choosest.
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It is not my place in society that makes me well off, but my judgements, and these I can carry with me... These alone are my own and cannot be taken away.
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In theory there is nothing to hinder our following what we are taughtbut in life there are many things to draw us aside.
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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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When we blather about trivial things, we ourselves become trivial, for our attention gets taken up with trivialities. You become what you give your attention to.
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The essence of good and evil is a certain disposition of the will.
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Whatever you would make habitual, practice it and if you would not make a thing habitual, do not practice it, but accustom yourself to something else.
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The soul's impurity consists in bad judgements, and purification consists in producing in it right judgements, and the pure soul is one which has right judgements, for this alone is proof against confusion and pollution in its functions.
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You bear God within you, poor wretch, and know it not.
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No man is disturbed by things, but by his opinion about things.
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