All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
EPICTETUSIf you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
More Epictetus Quotes
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Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
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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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Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness.
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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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Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle.
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Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.
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Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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Try not to react merely in the moment. Pull back from the situation. Take a wider view. Compose yourself.
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Attach yourself to what is spiritually superior, regardless of what other people think or do. Hold to your true aspirations no matter what is going on around you.
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If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
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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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First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
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No man is free who is not master of himself.
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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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