All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
EPICTETUSI 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.
More Epictetus Quotes
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Difficulty shows what men are.
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Other people’s views and troubles can be contagious. Don’t sabotage yourself by unwittingly adopting negative, unproductive attitudes through your associations with others.
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We all dread a bodily paralysis, and would make use of every contrivance to avoid it; but none of us is troubled about a paralysis of the soul.
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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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Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?
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Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.
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It is unrealistc to expect people to see you as you see yourself.
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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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It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous, even death is terrible only if we fear it.
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Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
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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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Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
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He who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.
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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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Only the educated are free.
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