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.
EPICTETUSWe 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.
More Epictetus Quotes
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Happiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing.
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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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Books are the training weights of the mind.
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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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Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.
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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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Try not to react merely in the moment. Pull back from the situation. Take a wider view. Compose yourself.
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Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
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All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
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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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Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
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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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We can’t control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character.
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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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To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.
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