If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
EPICTETUSIt’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
More Epictetus Quotes
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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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Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
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No man is free who is not master of himself.
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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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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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It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
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Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
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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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Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
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It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
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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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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.
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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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He who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.
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