Do not try to seem wise to others.
EPICTETUSRuin and recovering are both from within.
More Epictetus Quotes
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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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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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To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.
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Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.
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No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.
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Books are the training weights of the mind.
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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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We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.
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It is more necessary for the soul to be cured than the body; for it is better to die than to live badly.
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Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
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Freedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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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 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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Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
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