It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
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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It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
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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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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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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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The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
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What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
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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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If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
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Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
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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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The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
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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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Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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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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People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.
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