Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
EPICTETUSIt is unrealistc to expect people to see you as you see yourself.
More Epictetus Quotes
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No man is free who is not master of himself.
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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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Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
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Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness.
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The best place to get help is from yourself.
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The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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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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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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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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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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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
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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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First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
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Do not try to seem wise to others.
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It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.
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