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Epictetus Quote - Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.

Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.

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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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Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
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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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Difficulty shows what men are.
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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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No man is free who is not master of himself.
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Don’t live by your own rules, but in harmony with nature.
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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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In trying to please other people, we find ourselves misdirected toward what lies outside our sphere of influence. In doing so, we lose our hold on our lifes purpose.
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Only the educated are free.
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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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Try not to react merely in the moment. Pull back from the situation. Take a wider view. Compose yourself.
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It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
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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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