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Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them

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Epictetus
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Epictetus of Hierapolis
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If what the philosophers say be true, that all men's actions proceed from one source that as they assent from a persuasion that a thing is so, and dissent from a persuasion that it is not, and suspend their judgment from a persuasion that it is uncertain, so likewise they seek a thing from a persuasion that it is for their advantage.
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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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What really frightens and dismays us is not external events themselves, but the way in which we think about them. It is not things that disturb us, but our interpretation of their significance.
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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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If you would be well spoken of, learn to be well-spoken and having learnt to be well- spoken, strive also to be well-doing so shall you succeed in being well spoken of.
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Ask yourself: Does this appearance (of events) concern the things that are within my own control or those that are not? If it concerns anything outside your control, train yourself not to worry about it.
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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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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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The pleasure which we most rarely experience gives us greatest delight.
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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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Opportunity beckons more surely when misfortune comes upon a person than it ever does when that person is riding the crest of a wave of success. It sharpens a person's wits, if that person will let it, enabling him or her to see more clearly and evaluate situations with a more knowledgeable judgment.
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Getting distracted by trifles is the easiest thing in the world… Focus on your main duty
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What is learned without pleasure is forgotten without remorse.
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If I can acquire money and also keep myself modest and faithful and magnanimous, point out the way, and I will acquire it.
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The essence of good and evil is a certain disposition of the will.
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Men are not worried by things, but by their ideas about things. When we meet with difficulties, become anxious or troubled, let us not blame others, but rather ourselves. That is: our ideas about things.
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I am not eternity, but a man a part of the whole, as an hour is of the day.
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