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What is it to be a philosopher? Is it not to be prepared against events?
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Epictetus of Hierapolis
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A guide, on finding a man who has lost his way, brings him back to the right path—he does not mock and jeer at him and then take himself off. You also must show the unlearned man the truth, and you will see that he will follow. But so long as you do not show it him, you should not mock, but rather feel your own incapacity.
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We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them.
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We must be afraid of neither poverty nor exile nor imprisonment of fear itself only should we be afraid.
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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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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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It is not the events but our viewpoint toward events that is the determining factor. We ought to be more concerned about removing wrong thoughts from the mind than removing tumors and abscesses from the body.
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What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
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Don’t consent to be hurt and you won’t be hurt – this is a choice over which you have control
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I am always content with what happens for I know that what God chooses is better than what I choose.
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If your heart is quite set upon a crown, make and put on one of roses, for it will make the prettier appearance.
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Wherever I go it will be well with me, for it was well with me here, not on account of the place, but of my judgments which I shall carry away with me, for no one can deprive me of these on the contrary, they alone are my property, and cannot be taken away, and to possess them suffices me wherever I am or whatever I do.
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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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