Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
EPICTETUSBy accepting life’s limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.
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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It is unrealistc to expect people to see you as you see yourself.
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He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
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If you seek Truth, you will not seek to gain a victory by every possible means; and when you have found Truth, you need not fear being defeated.
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People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.
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Happiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing.
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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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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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Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle.
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If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
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Books are the training weights of the mind.
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Desire and happiness cannot live together.
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Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?
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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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Renew every day your conversation with God: Do this even in preference to eating. Think more often of God than you breathe.
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