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No great thing is created suddenly.
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One of the best ways to elevate your character is to emulate worthy role models
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The Beginning of Philosophy is a Consciousness of your own Weakness and inability in necessary things.
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Men are not afraid of things, but of how they view them.
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Think of God more often than thou breathest.
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I have to die. If it is now, well then I die now if later, then now I will take my lunch, since the hour for lunch has arrived - and dying I will tend to later.
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Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.
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You can be happy if you know this secret: Some things are within your power to control and some things are not.
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Preach not to others what they should eat, but eat as becomes you and be silent.
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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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When you have decided that a thing ought to be done and are doing it, never avoid bein seen doing it, though many shall form an unfavorable opinion about it. For if it is not right to do it, avoid doing the thing but if it is right, why are you afraid of those who shall find fault wrongly?
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Silence is safer than speech.
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To adorn our characters by the charm of an amiable nature shows at once a lover of beauty and a lover of man.
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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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As a man, casting off worn out garments taketh new ones, so the dweller in the body, entereth into ones that are new.
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Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
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When we name things correctly, we comprehend them correctly, without adding information or judgements that aren't there. Does someone bathe quickly? Don't say be bathes poorly, but quickly. Name the situation as it is, don't filter it through your judgments. Give your assent only to that which is actually true.
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It is my business, to manage carefully and dexterously whatever happens
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Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.
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We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them.
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