If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
EPICTETUSSeek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.
More Epictetus Quotes
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Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
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Every difficulty in life presents us with an opportunity to turn inward and to invoke our own submerged inner resources. The trials we endure can and should introduce us to our strengths.
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Books are the training weights of the mind.
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It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
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No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.
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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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A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
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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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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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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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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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Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
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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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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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There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will.
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