Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.
If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
If you wish to be a writer, write.
We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
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Note: Epictetus was a humble, Stoic Philosopher from the 1st and 2nd Century A.D. Born into slavery, he showed such promise that his prominent Roman owner allowed Epictetus to take lessons from the greatest Stoic teacher of the age, Musonius Rufus. He eventually gained his freedom, was banished from Rome with the other philosophers, and lived out the remainder of his life teaching at his philosophical school in Nicopolis (NW Greece, in the Prefecture of Preveza).
That last one, should be remembered more often, by more people.
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