The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
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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We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.
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Don’t live by your own rules, but in harmony with nature.
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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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Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
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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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Try not to react merely in the moment. Pull back from the situation. Take a wider view. Compose yourself.
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It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous, even death is terrible only if we fear it.
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The best place to get help is from yourself.
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Other people’s views and troubles can be contagious. Don’t sabotage yourself by unwittingly adopting negative, unproductive attitudes through your associations with others.
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All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
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Don’t demand or expect that events happen as you would wish them do. Accept events as they actually happen. That way, peace is possible.
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All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
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No man is free who is not master of himself.
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It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
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Only the educated are free.
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