Freedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
EPICTETUSThe world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
More Epictetus Quotes
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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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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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Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.
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The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
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Wisdom means understanding without any doubt that circumstances do not rise to meet our expectations. Events happen as they may. People behave as they will.
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Have the wisdom to know what cannot be changed, and the strength to change what can.
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Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
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Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.
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No matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person.
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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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Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
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If you wish to live a life free from sorrow, think of what is going to happen as if it had already happened.
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If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
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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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It is unrealistc to expect people to see you as you see yourself.
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Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.
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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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What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
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Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.
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He who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.
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It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous, even death is terrible only if we fear it.
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Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.
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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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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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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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