Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
EPICTETUSImagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
More Epictetus Quotes
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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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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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Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.
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If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
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A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
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Have the wisdom to know what cannot be changed, and the strength to change what can.
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There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will.
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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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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.
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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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Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
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Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
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In prosperity it is very easy to find a friend; but in adversity it is the most difficult of all things.
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He who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.
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All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
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