If you wish to live a life free from sorrow, think of what is going to happen as if it had already happened.
EPICTETUSIf you wish to live a life free from sorrow, think of what is going to happen as if it had already happened.
EPICTETUSIf you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
EPICTETUSMake the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
EPICTETUSThe greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
EPICTETUSOther people’s views and troubles can be contagious. Don’t sabotage yourself by unwittingly adopting negative, unproductive attitudes through your associations with others.
EPICTETUSHappiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle.
EPICTETUSWe 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.
EPICTETUSDon’t demand or expect that events happen as you would wish them do. Accept events as they actually happen. That way, peace is possible.
EPICTETUSWealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
EPICTETUSCircumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
EPICTETUSFirst say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
EPICTETUSIt is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.
EPICTETUSThe people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
EPICTETUSBooks are the training weights of the mind.
EPICTETUSIf you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
EPICTETUSNo matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.
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