A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
EPICTETUSWhoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.
More Epictetus Quotes
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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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Don’t consent to be hurt and you won’t be hurt – this is a choice over which you have control.
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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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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
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I laugh at those who think they can damage me. They do not know who I am, they do not know what I think, they cannot even touch the things which are really mine and with which I live.
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The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
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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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The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
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Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
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Difficulty shows what men are.
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The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
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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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Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.
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No great thing is created suddenly. There must be time. Give your best and always be kind.
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Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
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