Don’t consent to be hurt and you won’t be hurt – this is a choice over which you have control.
EPICTETUSIt is better to die of hunger having lived without grief and fear, than to live with a troubled spirit, amid abundance.
More Epictetus Quotes
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Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
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Demand not that things happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do, and you will go on well.
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Don’t live by your own rules, but in harmony with nature.
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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
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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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If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
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It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.
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We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.
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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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Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.
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When we blather about trivial things, we ourselves become trivial, for our attention gets taken up with trivialities. You become what you give your attention to.
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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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Try not to react merely in the moment. Pull back from the situation. Take a wider view. Compose yourself.
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Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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The best place to get help is from yourself.
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Only the educated are free.
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If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
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Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
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Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
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To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.
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People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.
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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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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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Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
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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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The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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