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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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Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.
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If you would be a reader, read if a writer, write.
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Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems
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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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Every habit and faculty is preserved and increased by correspondent actions, as the habit of walking, by walking of running, by running.
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It is better to die of hunger having lived without grief and fear, than to live with a troubled spirit, amid abundance
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If someone irritates you, it is only your own response that is irritating you. Therefore, when anyone seems to be provoking you, remember that it is only your judgment of the incident that provokes you. -
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It is my business, to manage carefully and dexterously whatever happens
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Everything has two handles,-one by which it may be borne another by which it cannot.
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Things true and evident must of necessity be recognized by those who would contradict them.
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Act well your given part the choice rests not with you.
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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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Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?
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Things themselves don't hurt or hinder us. Things simply are what they are. How we view these things is another matter.People think what they will think it is of no concern to us.
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Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return. Are you deprived of your estate? Is not this also a return?
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It is difficulties that show what men are. For the future, in case of any difficulty, remember that God, like a gymnastic trainer, has pitted you against a rough antagonist. For what end? That you may be an Olympic conqueror and this cannot be without toil.
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Have the wisdom to know what cannot be changed, and the strength to change what can.
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We should not have either a blunt knife or a freedom of speech which is ill-managed.
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When we act pugnaciously, and injuriously, and angrily, and rudely, to what level have we degenerated? To the level of the wild beasts. Well, the fact is that some of us are wild beasts of a larger size, while others are little animals, malignant and petty.
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Unremarkable lives are marked by the fear of not looking capable when trying something new.
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