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Epictetus of Hierapolis
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No matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person.
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It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it.
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You lose only the things you have
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Neither the victories of the Olympic Games nor those achieved in battles make the man happy. The only victories that make him happy are those achieved against himself. Temptations and tests are combats. You have beaten one, two, many times still fight. If you defeat at last you will be happy your entire life, as if you have always defeated.
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When our friends are present we ought to treat them well and when they are absent, to speak of them well.
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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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You can be invincible, if you enter into no contest in which it is not in your power to conquer.
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Things true and evident must of necessity be recognized by those who would contradict them.
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The appearance of things to the mind is the standard of every action to man.
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When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it. It is not the things that disturb us, but our interpretation of their significance. Things and people are not what we wish them to be nor are they what they seem to be. They are what they are.
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Don't be concerned with other people's impressions of you. They are dazzled and deluded by appearances. Stick with your purpose. This alone will strengthen your will and give your life coherence.
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Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.
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If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.
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Wish that everything should come about just as it does.
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Think of God oftener than you breathe.
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If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit give it nothing which may tend to its increase.
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There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
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Let no man think that he is loved by any who loveth none.
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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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Freedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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