Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
EPICTETUSMake the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
More Epictetus Quotes
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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
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Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
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It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.
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He who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.
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Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.
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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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Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
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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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Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
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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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If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
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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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The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
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Demand not that things happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do, and you will go on well.
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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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