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It is not so much what happens to you as how you think about what happens. Epictetus

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Epictetus
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Epictetus of Hierapolis
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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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As you think, so you become.....Our busy minds are forever jumping to conclusions, manufacturing and interpreting signs that aren't there.
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When a youth was giving himself airs in the Theatre and saying, 'I am wise, for I have conversed with many wise men,' Epictetus replied, 'I too have conversed with many rich men, yet I am not rich!’.
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Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.
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You become what you give your attention to...If you yourself don't choose what thoughts and images you expose yourself to, someone else will, and their motives may not be the highest.
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Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?
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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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If a man is unhappy, remember that his unhappiness is his own fault, for God made all men to be happy.
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It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.
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The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
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Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control. Stop aspiring to be anyone other than your own best self: for that does fall within your control.
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Bid a singer in a chorus, Know Thyself and will he not turn for the knowledge to the others, his fellows in the chorus, and to his harmony with them?
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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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When the Idea, of any Pleasure strikes your Imagination... let that time be employed in making a just Computation between, the duration of the Pleasure, and that of the Repentance sure to follow it.
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The origin of sorrow is this: to wish for something that does not come to pass.
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It is unlikely that the good of a snail should reside in its shell: so is it likely that the good of a man should?
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There are some things which men confess with ease, and others with difficulty.
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Think of God oftener than you breathe.
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-….when things seem to have reached that stage, merely say “I won’t play any longer”, and take your departure but if you stay, stop lamenting.
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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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