If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
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More Epictetus Quotes
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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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Difficulty shows what men are.
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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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Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
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If you wish to live a life free from sorrow, think of what is going to happen as if it had already happened.
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Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
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Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control.
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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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Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
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We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.
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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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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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Books are the training weights of the mind.
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Do not try to seem wise to others.
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