Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.
EPICTETUSThe world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
More Epictetus Quotes
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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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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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Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle.
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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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Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.
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The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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No man is free who is not master of himself.
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It is better to die of hunger having lived without grief and fear, than to live with a troubled spirit, amid abundance.
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Try not to react merely in the moment. Pull back from the situation. Take a wider view. Compose yourself.
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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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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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You have been given your own work to do. Get to it right now, do your best at it, and don’t be concerned with who is watching you. Create your own merit.
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The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
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Demand not that things happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do, and you will go on well.
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