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  1. Epictetus _ Discourses and Selected

    It is not events that disturb people, it is their judgements concerning them.
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  2. Epictetus _ Discourses and Selected

    Why are you pestering me, pal? My own evils are enough for me.
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    Don't concern yourself with other people's business. It's his problem if he receives you badly. And you cannot suffer for another person's fault. So don't worry about the behavior of other.
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    That is the way things are weighed and disagreements settled - when standards are established. Philosophy aims to test and set such standards. And the wise man is advised to make use of their findings right way.
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    You will never have to experience defeat if you avoid contests whose outcome is outside your control.
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  6. Epictetus _ Discourses and Selected

    For where you find unrest, grief, fear, frustrated desire, failed aversion, jealousy and envy, happiness has no room for admittance. And where values are false, these passions inevitably follow.
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  7. Epictetus _ Discourses and Selected

    In literature, too, it is not great achievement to memorize what you have read while not formulating an opinion of your own.
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  8. Epictetus _ Discourses and Selected

    So if you like doing something, do it regularly; if you don't like doing something, make a habit of doing something different.
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  9. Epictetus _ Discourses and Selected

    When someone is properly grounded in life, they shouldn't have to look outside themselves for approval.
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  10. Epictetus _ Discourses and Selected

    So don't make a show of your philosophical learning to the uninitiated, show them by your actions what you have absorbed.
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  11. Epictetus _ Discourses and Selected

    Restrict yourself to choice and refusal; and exercise them carefully, with discipline and detachment.
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  12. Epictetus _ Discourses and Selected

    We should realize that an opinion is not easily formed unless a person says and hears the same things every day and practises them in real life.
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