It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous, even death is terrible only if we fear it.
EPICTETUSDifficulty shows what men are.
More Epictetus Quotes
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Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.
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Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle.
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Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
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It takes more than just a good looking body. You’ve got to have the heart and soul to go with it.
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We can’t control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character.
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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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Desire and happiness cannot live together.
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Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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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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Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.
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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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Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
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I laugh at those who think they can damage me. They do not know who I am, they do not know what I think, they cannot even touch the things which are really mine and with which I live.
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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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All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
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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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You can be happy if you know this secret: Some things are within your power to control and some things are not.
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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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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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You become what you give your attention to. If you yourself don’t choose what thoughts and images you expose yourself to, someone else will, and their motives may not be the highest.
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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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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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People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.
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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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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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If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
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