The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
EPICTETUSNature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.
More Epictetus Quotes
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Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
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No great thing is created suddenly. There must be time. Give your best and always be kind.
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It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
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All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
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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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Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
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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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The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
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Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
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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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When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it; you can either accept it or resent it.
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Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.
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It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.
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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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Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
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