All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
EPICTETUSTo live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.
More Epictetus Quotes
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The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
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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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Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.
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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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The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
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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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We can’t control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character.
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Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.
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Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
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Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
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People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.
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It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
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Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
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It’s so simple really: If you say you’re going to do something, do it. If you start something, finish it.
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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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