If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
EPICTETUSIs freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
More Epictetus Quotes
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It is unrealistc to expect people to see you as you see yourself.
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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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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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If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
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It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
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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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Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
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Do not try to seem wise to others.
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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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No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.
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There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will.
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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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Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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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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It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
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