Don’t consent to be hurt and you won’t be hurt – this is a choice over which you have control.
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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Only the educated are free.
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Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.
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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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Don’t be concerned with other people’s impressions of you. They are dazzled and deluded by appearances. Stick with your purpose. This alone will strengthen your will and give your life coherence.
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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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We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.
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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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Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
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First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
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It is unrealistc to expect people to see you as you see yourself.
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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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Don’t live by your own rules, but in harmony with nature.
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People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.
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It is more necessary for the soul to be cured than the body; for it is better to die than to live badly.
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Desire and happiness cannot live together.
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Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.
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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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Do not try to seem wise to others.
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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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All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
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Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle.
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When you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
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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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A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
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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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The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
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