Only the educated are free.
EPICTETUSKeep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.
More Epictetus Quotes
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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 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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People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.
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A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
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Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.
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Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.
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Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle.
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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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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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By accepting life’s limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.
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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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Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.
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It’s so simple really: If you say you’re going to do something, do it. If you start something, finish it.
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Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
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No matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person.
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It is unrealistc to expect people to see you as you see yourself.
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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 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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Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
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The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
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You can be happy if you know this secret: Some things are within your power to control and some things are not.
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It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
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You become what you give your attention to. If you yourself don’t choose what thoughts and images you expose yourself to, someone else will, and their motives may not be the highest.
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Freedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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In prosperity it is very easy to find a friend; but in adversity it is the most difficult of all things.
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Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.
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