Books are the training weights of the mind.
EPICTETUSKeep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
More Epictetus Quotes
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I laugh at those who think they can damage me. They do not know who I am, they do not know what I think, they cannot even touch the things which are really mine and with which I live.
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Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness.
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Don’t demand or expect that events happen as you would wish them do. Accept events as they actually happen. That way, peace is possible.
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To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.
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By accepting life’s limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.
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It takes more than just a good looking body. You’ve got to have the heart and soul to go with it.
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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.
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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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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.
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Try not to react merely in the moment. Pull back from the situation. Take a wider view. Compose yourself.
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Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
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If you seek Truth, you will not seek to gain a victory by every possible means; and when you have found Truth, you need not fear being defeated.
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Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
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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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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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It is unrealistc to expect people to see you as you see yourself.
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Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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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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If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
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It is better to die of hunger having lived without grief and fear, than to live with a troubled spirit, amid abundance.
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Don’t consent to be hurt and you won’t be hurt – this is a choice over which you have control.
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Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
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No matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person.
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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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First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
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