Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.
EPICTETUSIs freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
More Epictetus Quotes
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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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No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.
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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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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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People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of 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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If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
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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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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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By accepting life’s limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.
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Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
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If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
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A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
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Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
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Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
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