Every difficulty in life presents us with an opportunity to turn inward and to invoke our own submerged inner resources. The trials we endure can and should introduce us to our strengths.
EPICTETUSDon’t live by your own rules, but in harmony with nature.
More Epictetus Quotes
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Demand not that things happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do, and you will go on well.
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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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We can’t control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character.
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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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Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.
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It’s time to stop being vague. If you wish to be an extraordinary person, if you wish to be wise, then you should explicitly identify the kind of person you aspire to become.
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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
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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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A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
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The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
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No matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person.
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Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
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If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
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People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.
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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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