He who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.
EPICTETUSThe world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
More Epictetus Quotes
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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
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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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I laugh at those who think they can damage me. They do not know who I am, they do not know what I think, they cannot even touch the things which are really mine and with which I live.
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Attach yourself to what is spiritually superior, regardless of what other people think or do. Hold to your true aspirations no matter what is going on around you.
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To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.
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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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Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
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When we blather about trivial things, we ourselves become trivial, for our attention gets taken up with trivialities. You become what you give your attention to.
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In prosperity it is very easy to find a friend; but in adversity it is the most difficult of all things.
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We all carry the seeds of greatness within us, but we need an image as a point of focus in order that they may sprout.
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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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The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
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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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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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Books are the training weights of the mind.
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