Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
EPICTETUSDon’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
EPICTETUSSmall-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness.
EPICTETUSIf you seek Truth, you will not seek to gain a victory by every possible means; and when you have found Truth, you need not fear being defeated.
EPICTETUSMen are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
EPICTETUSTentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.
EPICTETUSIt is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous, even death is terrible only if we fear it.
EPICTETUSFirst learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
EPICTETUSWe can’t control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character.
EPICTETUSIf you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
EPICTETUSOther people’s views and troubles can be contagious. Don’t sabotage yourself by unwittingly adopting negative, unproductive attitudes through your associations with others.
EPICTETUSNature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.
EPICTETUSYou 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.
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.
EPICTETUSImagine 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.
EPICTETUSThere is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will.
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