Do not try to seem wise to others.
EPICTETUSMan is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
More Epictetus Quotes
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When you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
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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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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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Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
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Every difficulty in life presents us with an opportunity to turn inward and to invoke our own submerged inner resources. The trials we endure can and should introduce us to our strengths.
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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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The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
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The best place to get help is from yourself.
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He who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.
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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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First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
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The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
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If you seek Truth, you will not seek to gain a victory by every possible means; and when you have found Truth, you need not fear being defeated.
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Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
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