First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
EPICTETUSIt is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
More Epictetus Quotes
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The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
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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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Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
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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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Desire and happiness cannot live together.
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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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Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
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We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.
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Wisdom means understanding without any doubt that circumstances do not rise to meet our expectations. Events happen as they may. People behave as they will.
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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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The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
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If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
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Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
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Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle.
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