The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
EPICTETUSNature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.
More Epictetus Quotes
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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
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If you wish to live a life free from sorrow, think of what is going to happen as if it had already happened.
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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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It takes more than just a good looking body. You’ve got to have the heart and soul to go with it.
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Don’t consent to be hurt and you won’t be hurt – this is a choice over which you have control.
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Only the educated are free.
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The best place to get help is from yourself.
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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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Desire and happiness cannot live together.
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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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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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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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A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
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It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
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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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Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
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We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.
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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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It is more necessary for the soul to be cured than the body; for it is better to die than to live badly.
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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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First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
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All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
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The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
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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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The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
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