In prosperity it is very easy to find a friend; but in adversity it is the most difficult of all things.
EPICTETUSThe key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
More Epictetus Quotes
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Only the educated are free.
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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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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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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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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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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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Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.
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In trying to please other people, we find ourselves misdirected toward what lies outside our sphere of influence. In doing so, we lose our hold on our lifes purpose.
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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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It is better to die of hunger having lived without grief and fear, than to live with a troubled spirit, amid abundance.
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If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
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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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First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
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We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.
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If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
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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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We all carry the seeds of greatness within us, but we need an image as a point of focus in order that they may sprout.
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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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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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By accepting life’s limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.
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The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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No matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person.
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First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
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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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The best place to get help is from yourself.
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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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