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To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.

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Epictetus
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Epictetus of Hierapolis
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When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it you can either accept it or resent it.
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If we are not stupid or insincere when we say that the good or ill of man lies within his own will, and that all beside is nothing to us, why are we still troubled?
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Other people's views and troubles can be contagious. Don't sabotage yourself by unwittingly adopting negative, unproductive attitudes through your associations with others.
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Think of God more often than thou breathest.
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If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible.
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Shall I show you the sinews of a philosopher? What sinews are those? - A will undisappointed evils avoided powers daily exercised careful resolutions unerring decisions.
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Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.
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No man is disturbed by things, but by his opinion about things.
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Ask yourself, How are my thoughts, words and deeds affecting my friends, my spouse, my neighbour, my child, my employer, my subordinates, my fellow citizens?
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No man is able to make progress when he is wavering between opposite things.
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Make it your business to draw out the best in others by being an exemplar yourself.
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Give yourself fully to your endeavors. Decide to construct your character through excellent actions and determine to pay the price of a worthy goal. The trials you encounter will introduce you to your strengths.
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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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If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
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It is a mark of a mean capacity to spend much time on the things which concern the body, such as much exercise, much eating, much drinking, much easing of the body, much copulation. But these things should be done as subordinate things: and let all your care be directed to the mind.
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To know that you do not know and to be willing to admit that you do not know without sheepishly apologizing is real strength and sets the stage for learning and progress in any endeavor.
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Happiness is an equivalent for all troublesome things.
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What hurts this person is not the occurrence itself, for another person might not feel oppressed by this situation at all. What is hurting this person is the response he or she has uncritically adopted. It is not a demonstration of kindness or friendship to the people we care about to join them in indulging in wrongheaded, negative feelings.
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First tell yourself what you want to be, then do what you need to do.
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It is your own convictions which compels you that is, choice compels choice.
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