Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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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The best place to get help is from yourself.
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We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.
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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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No matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person.
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Don’t live by your own rules, but in harmony with nature.
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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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Don’t consent to be hurt and you won’t be hurt – this is a choice over which you have control.
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Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness.
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Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
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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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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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Don’t demand or expect that events happen as you would wish them do. Accept events as they actually happen. That way, peace is possible.
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Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
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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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