The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
EPICTETUSFirst say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
More Epictetus Quotes
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In prosperity it is very easy to find a friend; but in adversity it is the most difficult of all things.
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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.
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No great thing is created suddenly. There must be time. Give your best and always be kind.
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Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.
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When we blather about trivial things, we ourselves become trivial, for our attention gets taken up with trivialities. You become what you give your attention to.
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Do not try to seem wise to others.
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Books are the training weights of the mind.
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Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
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Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
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It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous, even death is terrible only if we fear it.
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It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.
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The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
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We all carry the seeds of greatness within us, but we need an image as a point of focus in order that they may sprout.
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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
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