Do not try to seem wise to others.
EPICTETUSThe greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
More Epictetus Quotes
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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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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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We can’t control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character.
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Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
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The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
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We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.
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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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Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness.
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Books are the training weights of the mind.
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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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Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
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He who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.
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We all carry the seeds of greatness within us, but we need an image as a point of focus in order that they may sprout.
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Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
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If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
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