No matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person.
EPICTETUSMan is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
More Epictetus Quotes
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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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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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Happiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing.
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Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control.
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First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
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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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Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
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Don’t live by your own rules, but in harmony with nature.
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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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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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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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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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Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
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Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
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