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Common and vulgar people ascribe all ills that they feel to others; people of little wisdom ascribe to themselves; people of much wisdom, to no one.


- Epictetus









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To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

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The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

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First say to yourself what you would be, and then do what you have to do.

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Any person capable of angering you becomes your master, He can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him

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Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.

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There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will.

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Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.

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It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

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It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.

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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

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Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.

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Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid.

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If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

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It is a painful thing to look at your own trouble and know that you yourself and no one else has made

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To be unable to bear an ill is itself a great ill.

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One's own escape from troubles makes one glad; but bringing friends to trouble is hard grief.

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Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

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Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy.

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Sweet are the uses of adversity, which, like a toad, though ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in its head.

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