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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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Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
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If anyone should tell you that a particular person has spoken critically of you, don't bother with excuses or defenses. Just smile and reply, I guess that person doesn't know about all my other faults. Otherwise, he wouldn't have mentioned only these.
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The wise realize that some things are within their control, and most things are not. They learn early on to distinguish between what they can and can't regulate.
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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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No living being is held by anything so strongly as its own needs.
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What is it to be a philosopher? Is it not to be prepared against events?
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When you let go of your attention for a little while, do not think you may recover it whenever you please.
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Try not to react merely in the moment. Pull back from the situation. Take a wider view. Compose yourself.
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The universe is but one great city, full of beloved ones, divine and human, by nature endeared to each other.
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If you wish to write, write.
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What is yours is to play the assigned part well. But to choose it belongs to someone else
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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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Exceed due measure, and the most delightful things become the least delightful.
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Any one thing in the creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to a humble and grateful mind.
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Silence is safer than speech.
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With ills unending strives the putter off.
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Your master is he who controls that on which you have set your heart or wish to avoid.
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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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Choose the life that is noblest, for custom can make it sweet to thee.
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Man is troubled not by events, but by the meaning he gives them.
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