It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.
EPICTETUSWe all carry the seeds of greatness within us, but we need an image as a point of focus in order that they may sprout.
More Epictetus Quotes
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The best place to get help is from 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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It is unrealistc to expect people to see you as you see yourself.
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Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
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Desire and happiness cannot live together.
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Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle.
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Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.
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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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People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.
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Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.
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Every difficulty in life presents us with an opportunity to turn inward and to invoke our own submerged inner resources. The trials we endure can and should introduce us to our strengths.
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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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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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Renew every day your conversation with God: Do this even in preference to eating. Think more often of God than you breathe.
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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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