Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?
EPICTETUSHe who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.
More Epictetus Quotes
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Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
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No man is free who is not master of himself.
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Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
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We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.
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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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When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it; you can either accept it or resent it.
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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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Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
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No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.
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Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.
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Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness.
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Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
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Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
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First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
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