Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
EPICTETUSDo not try to seem wise to others.
More Epictetus Quotes
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Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.
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Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power.
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Other people’s views and troubles can be contagious. Don’t sabotage yourself by unwittingly adopting negative, unproductive attitudes through your associations with others.
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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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The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
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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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Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
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There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will.
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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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It’s time to stop being vague. If you wish to be an extraordinary person, if you wish to be wise, then you should explicitly identify the kind of person you aspire to become.
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Desire and happiness cannot live together.
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Happiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing.
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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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All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
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Freedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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