All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
EPICTETUSThe people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
More Epictetus Quotes
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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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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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Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
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When you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
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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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To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.
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Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control.
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When we blather about trivial things, we ourselves become trivial, for our attention gets taken up with trivialities. You become what you give your attention to.
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Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
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It is unrealistc to expect people to see you as you see yourself.
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Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.
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Difficulty shows what men are.
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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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It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
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