The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
EPICTETUSTo live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.
More Epictetus Quotes
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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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Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
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First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
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Only the educated are free.
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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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What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
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Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
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No man is free who is not master of himself.
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He who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.
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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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Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
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Don’t be concerned with other people’s impressions of you. They are dazzled and deluded by appearances. Stick with your purpose. This alone will strengthen your will and give your life coherence.
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Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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I laugh at those who think they can damage me. They do not know who I am, they do not know what I think, they cannot even touch the things which are really mine and with which I live.
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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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