Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
EPICTETUSIs freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
More Epictetus Quotes
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He who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.
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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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The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
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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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Have the wisdom to know what cannot be changed, and the strength to change what can.
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Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power.
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First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
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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 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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Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.
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Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
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Difficulty shows what men are.
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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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Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
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It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
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