The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
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Renew 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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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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Try not to react merely in the moment. Pull back from the situation. Take a wider view. Compose yourself.
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When you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
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Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness.
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First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
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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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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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No matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person.
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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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It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.
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Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
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It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
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Don’t demand or expect that events happen as you would wish them do. Accept events as they actually happen. That way, peace is possible.
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Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.
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He who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.
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