Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
EPICTETUSHave the wisdom to know what cannot be changed, and the strength to change what can.
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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No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.
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Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?
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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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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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No man is free who is not master of himself.
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The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
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By accepting life’s limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.
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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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What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
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In trying to please other people, we find ourselves misdirected toward what lies outside our sphere of influence. In doing so, we lose our hold on our lifes purpose.
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Don’t be concerned with other people’s impressions of you. They are dazzled and deluded by appearances. Stick with your purpose. This alone will strengthen your will and give your life coherence.
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Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
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Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
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The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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