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Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.
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To accuse others for one's own misfortune 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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I laugh at those who think they can damage me. They do not know who I am, they do not know what I think, they cannot even touch the things which are really mine and with which I live.
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The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
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If evil be said of thee, and if it be true, correct thyself; if it be a lie, laugh at it.
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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 any man then hinder me from going with smiles and cheerfulness and contentment?
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We are not disturbed by what happens to us, but by our thoughts about what happens to us.
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Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness
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It is better to die of hunger having lived without grief and fear, than to live with a troubled spirit, amid abundance
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If any be unhappy, let him remember that he is unhappy by reason of himself alone. For God hath made all men to enjoy felicity and constancy of good.
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It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous -- even death is terrible only if we fear it.
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We must not believe the many, who say that only free people ought to be educated, but we should rather believe the philosophers who say that only the educated are free.
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Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.
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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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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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What really frightens and dismays us is not external events themselves, but the way in which we think about them. It is not things that disturb us, but our interpretation of their significance.
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What concerns me is not the way things are, but the way people think things are.
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Men are disturbed not by the things that happen, but by their opinion of the things that happen.
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What concerns me is not the way things are, but the way people think things are.
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Men are disturbed not by the things that happen, but by their opinion of the things that happen.
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What concerns me is not the way things are, but the way people think things are.
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Men are disturbed not by the things that happen, but by their opinion of the things that happen.
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Whoever then would be free, let him wish for nothing, let him decline nothing, which depends on others; else he must necessarily be a slave.
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Those who are well constituted in the body endure both heat and cold: and so those who are well constituted in the soul endure both anger and grief and excessive joy and the other affects.
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For it is not death or pain that is to be feared, but the fear of pain or death.
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If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother.
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An ignorant person is inclined to blame others for his own misfortune. To blame oneself is proof of progress. But the wise man never has to blame another or himself.
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For sheep don't throw up the grass to show the shepherds how much they have eaten; but, inwardly digesting their food, they outwardly produce wool and milk.
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Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.
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