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.
EPICTETUSDo not try to seem wise to others.
More Epictetus Quotes
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Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.
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Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.
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Every difficulty in life presents us with an opportunity to turn inward and to invoke our own submerged inner resources. The trials we endure can and should introduce us to our strengths.
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Freedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
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Difficulty shows what men are.
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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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No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.
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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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Have the wisdom to know what cannot be changed, and the strength to change what can.
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Renew every day your conversation with God: Do this even in preference to eating. Think more often of God than you breathe.
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First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
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Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
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He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
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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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