Other people’s views and troubles can be contagious. Don’t sabotage yourself by unwittingly adopting negative, unproductive attitudes through your associations with others.
EPICTETUSHave the wisdom to know what cannot be changed, and the strength to change what can.
More Epictetus Quotes
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If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
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We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.
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No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.
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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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Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
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Don’t live by your own rules, but in harmony with nature.
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Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
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No man is free who is not master of himself.
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It is more necessary for the soul to be cured than the body; for it is better to die than to live badly.
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Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power.
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Difficulty shows what men are.
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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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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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Have the wisdom to know what cannot be changed, and the strength to change what can.
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Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
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