It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.
EPICTETUSSuffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power.
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To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.
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Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
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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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You have been given your own work to do. Get to it right now, do your best at it, and don’t be concerned with who is watching you. Create your own merit.
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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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Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.
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Have the wisdom to know what cannot be changed, and the strength to change what can.
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Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
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Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
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Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.
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Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
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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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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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Difficulty shows what men are.
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It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
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Renew every day your conversation with God: Do this even in preference to eating. Think more often of God than you breathe.
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It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
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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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Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.
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It is unrealistc to expect people to see you as you see yourself.
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Don’t live by your own rules, but in harmony with nature.
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Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.
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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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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
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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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