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.
EPICTETUSTo live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.
More Epictetus Quotes
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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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No great thing is created suddenly. There must be time. Give your best and always be kind.
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We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.
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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 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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You can be happy if you know this secret: Some things are within your power to control and some things are not.
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Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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Demand not that things happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do, and you will go on well.
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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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Don’t live by your own rules, but in harmony with nature.
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Do not try to seem wise to others.
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If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
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Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness.
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If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
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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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