The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
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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Only the educated are free.
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It’s so simple really: If you say you’re going to do something, do it. If you start something, finish it.
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It is unrealistc to expect people to see you as you see yourself.
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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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We all carry the seeds of greatness within us, but we need an image as a point of focus in order that they may sprout.
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First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
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No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.
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Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.
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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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We all dread a bodily paralysis, and would make use of every contrivance to avoid it; but none of us is troubled about a paralysis of the soul.
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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 people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
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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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The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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