No matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person.
EPICTETUSPeople are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.
More Epictetus Quotes
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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 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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Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.
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Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness.
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Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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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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Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
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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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Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
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All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
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If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
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Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
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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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What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
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Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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