The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
EPICTETUSDesire and happiness cannot live together.
More Epictetus Quotes
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Renew every day your conversation with God: Do this even in preference to eating. Think more often of God than you breathe.
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Books are the training weights of the mind.
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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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We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.
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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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Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness.
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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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Have the wisdom to know what cannot be changed, and the strength to change what can.
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We all carry the seeds of greatness within us, but we need an image as a point of focus in order that they may sprout.
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All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
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Difficulty shows what men are.
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The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
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If 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.
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He who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.
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Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.
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