It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.
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More Epictetus Quotes
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If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
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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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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
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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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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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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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If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
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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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We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.
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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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Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
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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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Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
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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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Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
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