Other people’s views and troubles can be contagious. Don’t sabotage yourself by unwittingly adopting negative, unproductive attitudes through your associations with others.
EPICTETUSOther people’s views and troubles can be contagious. Don’t sabotage yourself by unwittingly adopting negative, unproductive attitudes through your associations with others.
EPICTETUSTo live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.
EPICTETUSMake the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
EPICTETUSThe essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
EPICTETUSFreedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
EPICTETUSRenew every day your conversation with God: Do this even in preference to eating. Think more often of God than you breathe.
EPICTETUSDon’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
EPICTETUSA ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
EPICTETUSProgress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
EPICTETUSEvery 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.
EPICTETUSWe suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.
EPICTETUSIt is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
EPICTETUSIt’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.
EPICTETUSDon’t live by your own rules, but in harmony with nature.
EPICTETUSDon’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.
EPICTETUSAnything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
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