No matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person.
EPICTETUSYou can be happy if you know this secret: Some things are within your power to control and some things are not.
More Epictetus Quotes
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If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
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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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Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power.
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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 world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
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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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You have been given your own work to do. Get to it right now, do your best at it, and don’t be concerned with who is watching you. Create your own merit.
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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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Try not to react merely in the moment. Pull back from the situation. Take a wider view. Compose yourself.
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The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
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The best place to get help is from yourself.
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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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