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If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer, "He was ignorant of my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these alone. ― Epictetus
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Person
Speaks
Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it. ― Epictetus
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Explain
Philosophy
Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems ― Epictetus
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Worried
Anxieties
It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters. ― Epictetus
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Happens
Matters
First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do. ― Epictetus
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Yourself
Would
If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid. ― Epictetus
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Improve
Though
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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Person
Permit
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best. ― Epictetus
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Company
Presence
It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows. ― Epictetus
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Impossible
Already
He who laughs at himself never runs out of things to laugh at. ― Epictetus
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Laughs
Things
Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control. ― Epictetus
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Freedom
Worthy
Circumstances don't make the man, they only reveal him to himself. ― Epictetus
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Circumstances
Himself
People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them. ― Epictetus
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People
Disturbed
Other people's views and troubles can be contagious. Don't sabotage yourself by unwittingly adopting negative, unproductive attitudes through your associations with others. ― Epictetus
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People
Sabotage
No man is free who is not master of himself. ― Epictetus
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Himself
Man
First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak. ― Epictetus
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First
Speak