No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.
EPICTETUSIt is unrealistc to expect people to see you as you see yourself.
More Epictetus Quotes
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Happiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing.
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Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.
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Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.
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It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
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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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It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
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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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By accepting life’s limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.
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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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No man is free who is not master of 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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In prosperity it is very easy to find a friend; but in adversity it is the most difficult of all things.
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Difficulty shows what men are.
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Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle.
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