Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
EPICTETUSKnow you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?
More Epictetus Quotes
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Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.
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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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You have been given your own work to do. Get to it right now, do your best at it, and don’t be concerned with who is watching you. Create your own merit.
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Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
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Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power.
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When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it; you can either accept it or resent it.
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Don’t live by your own rules, but in harmony with nature.
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Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle.
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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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Desire and happiness cannot live together.
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The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
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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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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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Try not to react merely in the moment. Pull back from the situation. Take a wider view. Compose yourself.
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