To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.
EPICTETUSIt’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
More Epictetus Quotes
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The best place to get help is from yourself.
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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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Difficulty shows what men are.
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The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
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First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
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Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.
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If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
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Don’t live by your own rules, but in harmony with nature.
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A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
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Do not try to seem wise to others.
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Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?
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The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
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If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
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Demand not that things happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do, and you will go on well.
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What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
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