First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
EPICTETUSDon’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
More Epictetus Quotes
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All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
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Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.
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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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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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To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.
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Don’t demand or expect that events happen as you would wish them do. Accept events as they actually happen. That way, peace is possible.
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Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
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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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Difficulty shows what men are.
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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
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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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Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
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Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
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There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will.
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Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
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