Do not try to seem wise to others.
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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The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
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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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It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous, even death is terrible only if we fear it.
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If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
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Freedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle.
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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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Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
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Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
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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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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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Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?
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He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
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Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
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Don’t consent to be hurt and you won’t be hurt – this is a choice over which you have control.
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