To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.
EPICTETUSAuthentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.
More Epictetus Quotes
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No matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person.
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Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.
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It’s time to stop being vague. If you wish to be an extraordinary person, if you wish to be wise, then you should explicitly identify the kind of person you aspire to become.
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Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
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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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Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?
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Other people’s views and troubles can be contagious. Don’t sabotage yourself by unwittingly adopting negative, unproductive attitudes through your associations with others.
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Attach yourself to what is spiritually superior, regardless of what other people think or do. Hold to your true aspirations no matter what is going on around you.
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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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Difficulty shows what men are.
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Only the educated are free.
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Don’t live by your own rules, but in harmony with nature.
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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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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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The best place to get help is from yourself.
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