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.
EPICTETUSIf 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.
EPICTETUSSuffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power.
EPICTETUSKnow you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?
EPICTETUSIn prosperity it is very easy to find a friend; but in adversity it is the most difficult of all things.
EPICTETUSWhen you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
EPICTETUSIf evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
EPICTETUSOther people’s views and troubles can be contagious. Don’t sabotage yourself by unwittingly adopting negative, unproductive attitudes through your associations with others.
EPICTETUSIt is unrealistc to expect people to see you as you see yourself.
EPICTETUSIt’s so simple really: If you say you’re going to do something, do it. If you start something, finish it.
EPICTETUSBooks are the training weights of the mind.
EPICTETUSProgress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
EPICTETUSMan is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
EPICTETUSWhat concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
EPICTETUSKeep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
EPICTETUSDemand not that things happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do, and you will go on well.
EPICTETUSIf you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
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