To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.
EPICTETUSIf you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
More Epictetus Quotes
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Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
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Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness.
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All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
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Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
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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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Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle.
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It’s time to stop being vague. If you wish to be an extraordinary person, if you wish to be wise, then you should explicitly identify the kind of person you aspire to become.
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Desire and happiness cannot live together.
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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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Don’t live by your own rules, but in harmony with nature.
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You can be happy if you know this secret: Some things are within your power to control and some things are not.
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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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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
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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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If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
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There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will.
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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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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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Have the wisdom to know what cannot be changed, and the strength to change what can.
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Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power.
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Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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Books are the training weights of the mind.
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If you wish to live a life free from sorrow, think of what is going to happen as if it had already happened.
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Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
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The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
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