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.
EPICTETUSMake the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
More Epictetus Quotes
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It is better to die of hunger having lived without grief and fear, than to live with a troubled spirit, amid abundance.
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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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It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
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By accepting life’s limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.
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If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
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In trying to please other people, we find ourselves misdirected toward what lies outside our sphere of influence. In doing so, we lose our hold on our lifes purpose.
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The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
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Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power.
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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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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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It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
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Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
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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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Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.
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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
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Difficulty shows what men are.
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Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.
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Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
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No man is free who is not master of himself.
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Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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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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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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Don’t live by your own rules, but in harmony with nature.
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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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The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.
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