We can’t control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character.
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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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
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Don’t live by your own rules, but in harmony with nature.
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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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Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.
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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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Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
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Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
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First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
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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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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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The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
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No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.
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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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Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.
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In 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.
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