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- When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it. It is not the things that disturb us, but our interpretation…
- In theory there is nothing to hinder our following what we are taught;but in life there are many things to draw us aside.
- Things themselves don't hurt or hinder us. Things simply are what they are. How we view these things is another matter.People think what they will…
- Freedom and happiness come from understanding - and working with - our limits. Begin at once a program of self-mastery. Stick with your purpose. Do…
- 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…
- Exceed due measure, and the most delightful things become the least delightful.
- It is the sign of a dull mind to dwell upon the cares of the body, to prolong exercise, eating and drinking and other bodily…
- If you set your heart upon philosophy, you must straightway prepare yourself to be laughed at and mocked by many who will say Behold a…
- The Beginning of Philosophy is a Consciousness of your own Weakness and inability in necessary things.
- You can be happy if you know this secret: Some things are within your power to control and some things are not.
- 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.'…
- There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
- He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
- People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.
- The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
- Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.
- Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.
- It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.
- One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.
- Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things, and then proceed to greater.
- There is but one way to tranquility of mind and happiness, and that is to account no external things thine own, but to commit all…
- 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…
- He who laughs at himself never runs out of things to laugh at.
- Concerning the Gods, there are those who deny the very existence of the Godhead; others say that it exists, but neither bestirs nor concerns itself…
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- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Change in all things is sweet. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle