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Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness.
EpictetusEpictetus If you wish to live a life free from sorrow, think of what is going to happen as if it had already happened.
EpictetusEpictetus If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
EpictetusEpictetus It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
EpictetusEpictetus No man is free who is not master of himself.
EpictetusEpictetus First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
EpictetusEpictetus Desire and happiness cannot live together.
EpictetusEpictetus Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control.
EpictetusEpictetus If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
EpictetusEpictetus We can’t control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character.
EpictetusEpictetus 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.
EpictetusEpictetus Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
EpictetusEpictetus Attach yourself to what is spiritually superior, regardless of what other people think or do. Hold to your true aspirations no matter what is going on around you.
EpictetusEpictetus We all dread a bodily paralysis, and would make use of every contrivance to avoid it; but none of us is troubled about a paralysis of the soul.
EpictetusEpictetus Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
EpictetusEpictetus Don’t be concerned with other people’s impressions of you. They are dazzled and deluded by appearances. Stick with your purpose. This alone will strengthen your will and give your life coherence.
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