When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it; you can either accept it or resent it.
EPICTETUSA ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
More Epictetus Quotes
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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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He who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.
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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 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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Do not try to seem wise to others.
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If you seek Truth, you will not seek to gain a victory by every possible means; and when you have found Truth, you need not fear being defeated.
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Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.
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Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.
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Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.
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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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If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
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It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
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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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All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
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First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
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