First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
EPICTETUSWealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
More Epictetus Quotes
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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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Renew every day your conversation with God: Do this even in preference to eating. Think more often of God than you breathe.
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The best place to get help is from yourself.
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Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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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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It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.
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It is unrealistc to expect people to see you as you see yourself.
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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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Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
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Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.
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Do not try to seem wise to others.
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No man is free who is not master of himself.
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Try not to react merely in the moment. Pull back from the situation. Take a wider view. Compose yourself.
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If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
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The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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