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.
EPICTETUSHave the wisdom to know what cannot be changed, and the strength to change what can.
More Epictetus Quotes
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Desire and happiness cannot live together.
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The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
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If you seek Truth, you will not seek to gain a victory by every possible means; and when you have found Truth, you need not fear being defeated.
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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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When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it; you can either accept it or resent it.
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If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
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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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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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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 matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.
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If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
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If you wish to live a life free from sorrow, think of what is going to happen as if it had already happened.
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First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
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Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
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It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
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