To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.
EPICTETUSIt is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.
More Epictetus Quotes
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It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
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Do not try to seem wise to others.
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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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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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No man is free who is not master of himself.
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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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Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
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We all dread a bodily paralysis, and would make use of every contrivance to avoid it; but none of us is troubled about a paralysis of the soul.
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Desire and happiness cannot live together.
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All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
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It is unrealistc to expect people to see you as you see yourself.
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Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.
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Freedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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