Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.
EPICTETUSDesire and happiness cannot live together.
More Epictetus Quotes
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It takes more than just a good looking body. You’ve got to have the heart and soul to go with it.
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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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Only the educated are free.
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Don’t consent to be hurt and you won’t be hurt – this is a choice over which you have control.
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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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There 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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Wisdom means understanding without any doubt that circumstances do not rise to meet our expectations. Events happen as they may. People behave as they will.
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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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If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
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No man is free who is not master of himself.
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It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
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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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You can be happy if you know this secret: Some things are within your power to control and some things are not.
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We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.
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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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