Only the educated are free.
EPICTETUSCircumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
More Epictetus Quotes
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It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
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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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Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
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Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.
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Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
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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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Books are the training weights of the mind.
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We can’t control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character.
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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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Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.
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No matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person.
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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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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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Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle.
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He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
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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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Desire and happiness cannot live together.
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Wisdom means understanding without any doubt that circumstances do not rise to meet our expectations. Events happen as they may. People behave as they will.
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Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.
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All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
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Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
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First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
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First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
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Do not try to seem wise to others.
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Attach yourself to what is spiritually superior, regardless of what other people think or do. Hold to your true aspirations no matter what is going on around you.
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If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
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