The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
EPICTETUSIf you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
More Epictetus Quotes
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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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The best place to get help is from yourself.
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It is better to die of hunger having lived without grief and fear, than to live with a troubled spirit, amid abundance.
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The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
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It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
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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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If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
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The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
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Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
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Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness.
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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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We all dread a bodily paralysis, and would make use of every contrivance to avoid it; but none of us is troubled about a paralysis of the soul.
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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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We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.
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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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