It is more necessary for the soul to be cured than the body; for it is better to die than to live badly.
EPICTETUSTo live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.
More Epictetus Quotes
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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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Freedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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When we blather about trivial things, we ourselves become trivial, for our attention gets taken up with trivialities. You become what you give your attention to.
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People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.
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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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Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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Desire and happiness cannot live together.
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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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Don’t live by your own rules, but in harmony with nature.
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It’s time to stop being vague. If you wish to be an extraordinary person, if you wish to be wise, then you should explicitly identify the kind of person you aspire to become.
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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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No great thing is created suddenly. There must be time. Give your best and always be kind.
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Only the educated are free.
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We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.
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