First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
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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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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Don’t live by your own rules, but in harmony with nature.
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A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
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Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.
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Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.
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Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
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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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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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We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.
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Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
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He who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.
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You become what you give your attention to. If you yourself don’t choose what thoughts and images you expose yourself to, someone else will, and their motives may not be the highest.
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Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle.
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It’s so simple really: If you say you’re going to do something, do it. If you start something, finish it.
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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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