Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
EPICTETUSRenew every day your conversation with God: Do this even in preference to eating. Think more often of God than you breathe.
More Epictetus Quotes
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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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Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
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There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will.
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Desire and happiness cannot live together.
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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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Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
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Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.
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If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
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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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If you seek Truth, you will not seek to gain a victory by every possible means; and when you have found Truth, you need not fear being defeated.
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Only the educated are free.
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Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness.
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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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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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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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