Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
EPICTETUSWealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
More Epictetus Quotes
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It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
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People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.
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By accepting life’s limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.
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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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No great thing is created suddenly. There must be time. Give your best and always be kind.
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Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.
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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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It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.
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What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
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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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The best place to get help is from yourself.
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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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Freedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.
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Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control.
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