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.
EPICTETUSThe greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
More Epictetus Quotes
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We all dread a bodily paralysis, and would make use of every contrivance to avoid it; but none of us is troubled about a paralysis of the soul.
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If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
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No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.
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Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.
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We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.
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Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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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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It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
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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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All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
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If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
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Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
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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 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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To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.
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