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Epictetus Quote - Do not try to seem wise to others.

Do not try to seem wise to others.

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Wisdom means understanding without any doubt that circumstances do not rise to meet our expectations. Events happen as they may. People behave as they will.
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By accepting life’s limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.
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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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No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.
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Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.
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Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
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It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
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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.
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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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Don’t consent to be hurt and you won’t be hurt – this is a choice over which you have control.
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The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
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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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If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
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It’s so simple really: If you say you’re going to do something, do it. If you start something, finish it.
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People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.
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The best place to get help is from yourself.
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I 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.
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What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
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Books are the training weights of the mind.
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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
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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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No matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person.
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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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Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.
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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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Have the wisdom to know what cannot be changed, and the strength to change what can.
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