It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous, even death is terrible only if we fear it.
EPICTETUSHe is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
More Epictetus Quotes
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Don’t be concerned with other people’s impressions of you. They are dazzled and deluded by appearances. Stick with your purpose. This alone will strengthen your will and give your life coherence.
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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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Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness.
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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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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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People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.
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Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.
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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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The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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Freedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
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Do not try to seem wise to others.
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Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
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