It takes more than just a good looking body. You’ve got to have the heart and soul to go with it.
EPICTETUSIs freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
More Epictetus Quotes
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Don’t be concerned with other people’s impressions of you. They are dazzled and deluded by appearances. Stick with your purpose. This alone will strengthen your will and give your life coherence.
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All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
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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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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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When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it; you can either accept it or resent it.
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We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.
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Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
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There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will.
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Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
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It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
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Books are the training weights of the mind.
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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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The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
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Don’t consent to be hurt and you won’t be hurt – this is a choice over which you have control.
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Every difficulty in life presents us with an opportunity to turn inward and to invoke our own submerged inner resources. The trials we endure can and should introduce us to our strengths.
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Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.
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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.
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Attach yourself to what is spiritually superior, regardless of what other people think or do. Hold to your true aspirations no matter what is going on around you.
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Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
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Demand not that things happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do, and you will go on well.
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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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Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
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Desire and happiness cannot live together.
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Only the educated are free.
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No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.
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First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
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