Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
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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In prosperity it is very easy to find a friend; but in adversity it is the most difficult of all things.
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The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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Don’t be concerned with other people’s impressions of you. They are dazzled and deluded by appearances. Stick with your purpose. This alone will strengthen your will and give your life coherence.
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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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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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You become what you give your attention to. If you yourself don’t choose what thoughts and images you expose yourself to, someone else will, and their motives may not be the highest.
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No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.
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If you wish to live a life free from sorrow, think of what is going to happen as if it had already happened.
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If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
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Happiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing.
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It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.
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It’s time to stop being vague. If you wish to be an extraordinary person, if you wish to be wise, then you should explicitly identify the kind of person you aspire to become.
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First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
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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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Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
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