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.
EPICTETUSIt is more necessary for the soul to be cured than the body; for it is better to die than to live badly.
More Epictetus Quotes
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Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control.
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A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
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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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Difficulty shows what men are.
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No man is free who is not master of himself.
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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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If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
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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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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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Do not try to seem wise to others.
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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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All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
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Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle.
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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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It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
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