First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
EPICTETUSBooks are the training weights of the mind.
More Epictetus Quotes
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It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous, even death is terrible only if we fear it.
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We all dread a bodily paralysis, and would make use of every contrivance to avoid it; but none of us is troubled about a paralysis of the soul.
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Difficulty shows what men are.
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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
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It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
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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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Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
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When you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
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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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What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
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Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle.
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Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
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Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.
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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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Don’t live by your own rules, but in harmony with nature.
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