To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.
EPICTETUSTo live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.
EPICTETUSRenew every day your conversation with God: Do this even in preference to eating. Think more often of God than you breathe.
EPICTETUSI laugh at those who think they can damage me. They do not know who I am, they do not know what I think, they cannot even touch the things which are really mine and with which I live.
EPICTETUSThe world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
EPICTETUSNo man is free who is not master of himself.
EPICTETUSIn trying to please other people, we find ourselves misdirected toward what lies outside our sphere of influence. In doing so, we lose our hold on our lifes purpose.
EPICTETUSMen are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
EPICTETUSWe can’t control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character.
EPICTETUSThe greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
EPICTETUSGive me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
EPICTETUSHave the wisdom to know what cannot be changed, and the strength to change what can.
EPICTETUSHappiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing.
EPICTETUSIn prosperity it is very easy to find a friend; but in adversity it is the most difficult of all things.
EPICTETUSWhen you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
EPICTETUSOnly the educated are free.
EPICTETUSA ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
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