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It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.

Epictetus

All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
EPICTETUS

Acceptance Heaven Life Man Religion Tolerance
Don’t consent to be hurt and you won’t be hurt – this is a choice over which you have control.
EPICTETUS

Choice Consent Control Healing Hurt Inspirational
Have the wisdom to know what cannot be changed, and the strength to change what can.
EPICTETUS

Business Change Inspirational Strength Success Wisdom
Every difficulty in life presents us with an opportunity to turn inward and to invoke our own submerged inner resources. The trials we endure can and should introduce us to our strengths.
EPICTETUS

Endure Introduce Life Opportunity Resource Strength
Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
EPICTETUS

Character Determination Imagination Personality Role Model Yourself
It’s so simple really: If you say you’re going to do something, do it. If you start something, finish it.
EPICTETUS

Business Finish Motivational Patience Start Success
The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
EPICTETUS

Happiness Liberty Life People Right Truth
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.
EPICTETUS

Acceptance Demand Expectation Happen Peace Possible
Attach yourself to what is spiritually superior, regardless of what other people think or do. Hold to your true aspirations no matter what is going on around you.
EPICTETUS

Aspiration People Regard Spiritual Superior Yourself
It is unrealistc to expect people to see you as you see yourself.
EPICTETUS

Deep Expectation People Reality Yourself
What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
EPICTETUS

Attitude Concern Human Nature People Thinking
We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.
EPICTETUS

Event Judgement Life Live Suffering
Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
EPICTETUS

Account Giving Inspirational Life Positive
It is better to die of hunger having lived without grief and fear, than to live with a troubled spirit, amid abundance.
EPICTETUS

Abundance Die Fear Hunger Live Trouble
By accepting life’s limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.
EPICTETUS

Acceptance Fight Freedom Life Limitation Work
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
EPICTETUS

Death Depression Fear Love Pain

It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.

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