Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
EPICTETUSGive me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
More Epictetus Quotes
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Freedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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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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You have been given your own work to do. Get to it right now, do your best at it, and don’t be concerned with who is watching you. Create your own merit.
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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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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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Desire and happiness cannot live together.
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The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
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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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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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People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.
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Every difficulty in life presents us with an opportunity to turn inward and to invoke our own submerged inner resources. The trials we endure can and should introduce us to our strengths.
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We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.
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Do not try to seem wise to others.
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Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.
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If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
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