It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
EPICTETUSKeep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
More Epictetus Quotes
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The best place to get help is from yourself.
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Other people’s views and troubles can be contagious. Don’t sabotage yourself by unwittingly adopting negative, unproductive attitudes through your associations with others.
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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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Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
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No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.
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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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In trying to please other people, we find ourselves misdirected toward what lies outside our sphere of influence. In doing so, we lose our hold on our lifes purpose.
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Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.
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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
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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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Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?
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Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
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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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Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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It’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.
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A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
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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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Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
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He who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.
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First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
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When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it; you can either accept it or resent it.
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He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
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Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle.
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Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
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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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