If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
EPICTETUSMan is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
More Epictetus Quotes
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Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
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Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
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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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All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
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Desire and happiness cannot live together.
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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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Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
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Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.
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The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
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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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No man is free who is not master of himself.
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People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.
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Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.
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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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