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Epictetus
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Epictetus
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Epictetus of Hierapolis
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People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.
Epictetus
Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control.
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When we blather about trivial things, we ourselves become trivial, for our attention gets taken up with trivialities. You become what you give your attention to.
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It were no slight attainment could we merely fulfil what the nature of man implies.
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Seek not the good in external thingsseek it in yourselves.
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It is the part of an uneducated person to blame others where he himself fares ill to blame himself is the part of one whose education has begun to blame neither another nor his own self is the part of one whose education is already complete.
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Don't demand or expect that events happen as you would wish them do. Accept events as they actually happen. That way, peace is possible.
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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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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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Preach not to others what they should eat, but eat as becomes you and be silent.
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Here is the beginning of philosophy: a recognition of the conflicts between men, a search for their cause, a condemnation of mere opinion .. . and the discovery of a standard of judgement.
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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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It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
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We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.
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Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them
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What disturbs and alarms man are not the things, but his opinions and fancies about the things.
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Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
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Make it your business to draw out the best in others by being an exemplar yourself.
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The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
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Exceed due measure, and the most delightful things become the least delightful.
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