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- Seek not good from without; seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.
- When men are unhappy, they do not imagine they can ever cease to be so; and when some calamity has fallen on them, they do…
- It doesn't take much to lose everything, just a little departure from reason
- Be not diverted from your duty by any idle reflections the silly world may make upon you, for their censures are not in your power…
- Contentment comes not so much from great wealth as from few wants.
- When you actively engage in gradually refining yourself, you retreat from your lazy ways of covering yourself or making excuses. Instead of feeling a persistent…
- Ruin and recovering are both from within.
- Try not to react merely in the moment. Pull back from the situation. Take a wider view. Compose yourself.
- From this instant on, vow to stop disappointing yourself. Separate yourself from the mob. Decide to be extraordinary and do what you need to do…
- Freedom and happiness come from understanding - and working with - our limits. Begin at once a program of self-mastery. Stick with your purpose. Do…
- It was the first and most striking characteristic of Socrates never to become heated in discourse, never to utter an injurious or insulting word --…
- Although we can't control which roles are assigned to us, it must be our business to act our given role as best we possibly can…
- Inner peace begins when we stop saying of things, 'I have lost it' and instead say, 'It has been returned to where it came from.'…
- The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
- You know yourself what you are worth in your own eyes; and at what price you will sell yourself. For men sell themselves at various…
- So you wish to conquer in the Olympic Games, my friend? And I, too... But first mark the conditions and the consequences. You will have…
- Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.
- I must die. Must I then die lamenting? I must be put in chains. Must I then also lament? I must go into exile. Does…
- To Epictetus, all external events are determined by fate, and are thus beyond our control, but we can accept whatever happens calmly and dispassionately. Individuals,…
- Nature has given to men one tongue, but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak
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