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

Epictetus on affirmation
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"Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens."

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

Epictetus on attitude
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"Men are disturbed not by things that happen, but by their opinion of the things that happen."

Epictetus on opinions
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"You are a little soul carrying around a corpse."

Epictetus on life
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"It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows."

Epictetus on knowledge   

"Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly."

Epictetus on knowledge
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"There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will."

Epictetus on happiness
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"The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests."

Epictetus on achievement
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"No man is free who is not a master of himself."

Epictetus on freedom
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"Only the educated are free."

Epictetus on education
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"Difficulties are things that show a person what they are."

Epictetus on difficulties
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"In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different."

Chanel, Coco on uniqueness
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