By accepting life’s limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.
EPICTETUSDon’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
More Epictetus Quotes
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Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
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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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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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The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
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It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous, even death is terrible only if we fear it.
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Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
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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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First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
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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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You have been given your own work to do. Get to it right now, do your best at it, and don’t be concerned with who is watching you. Create your own merit.
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All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
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First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
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When you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
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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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Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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