If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid. ― Epictetus

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As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die.

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First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak. ― Epictetus

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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. ― Epictetus

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

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Circumstances don't make the man, they only reveal him to himself. ― Epictetus

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No man is free who is not master of himself. ― Epictetus

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We three have never been very good chemists but we are gratified with a Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The Peter Principle says that everyone is promoted until they reach their level of incompetence. We are worried that we may have reached this remarkable point. - Jacques Dubochet

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Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control. ― Epictetus

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

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