When you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
EPICTETUSEvents do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
More Epictetus Quotes
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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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Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
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We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.
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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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Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
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We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.
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It’s so simple really: If you say you’re going to do something, do it. If you start something, finish it.
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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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Happiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing.
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All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
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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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The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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Books are the training weights of the mind.
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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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