Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
EPICTETUSDon’t consent to be hurt and you won’t be hurt – this is a choice over which you have control.
More Epictetus Quotes
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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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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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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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Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
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Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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We can’t control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character.
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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 people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
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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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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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Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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You become what you give your attention to. If you yourself don’t choose what thoughts and images you expose yourself to, someone else will, and their motives may not be the highest.
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Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
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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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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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Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.
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People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.
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Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?
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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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Desire and happiness cannot live together.
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Books are the training weights of the mind.
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Difficulty shows what men are.
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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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First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
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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 best place to get help is from yourself.
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