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Epictetus
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Epictetus
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Epictetus of Hierapolis
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Every difficulty in life presents us with an opportunity to turn inward and to invoke our own submerged inner resources. The trials we endure can and should introduce us to our strengths.
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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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A thing either is what it appears to be or it is not, but yet appears to be or it is, but does not appear to be or it is not, and does not appear to be.
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To know that you do not know and to be willing to admit that you do not know without sheepishly apologizing is real strength and sets the stage for learning and progress in any endeavor.
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Ask yourself, How are my thoughts, words and deeds affecting my friends, my spouse, my neighbour, my child, my employer, my subordinates, my fellow citizens?
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Happiness is an equivalent for all troublesome things.
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Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.
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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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If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself: 'I used to be angry every day then every other day now only every third or fourth day.' When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods.
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Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control.
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No living being is held by anything so strongly as its own needs.
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We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them.
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Living a good life leads to enduring happiness. Goodness in and of itself is the practice AND the reward.
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Some things are in our control and others not. Things in our control are opinion, pursuit, desire, aversion, and, in a word, whatever are our own actions. Things not in our control are body, property, reputation, command, and, in one word, whatever are not our own actions.
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It is hard to combine and unite these two qualities, the carefulness of one who is affected by circumstances, and the intrepidity of one who heeds them not. But it is not impossible: else were happiness also impossible.
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What disturbs people's minds are not events but their judgments on events.
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Were I a nightingale, I would act the part of a nightingale were I a swan, the part of a swan.
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The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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Choose the life that is noblest, for custom can make it sweet to thee.
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A half-hearted spirit has no power. Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcomes. Average people enter into their endeavors headlong and without care.
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