Demand not that things happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do, and you will go on well.
EPICTETUSHappiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing.
More Epictetus Quotes
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Do not try to seem wise to others.
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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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Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.
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First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
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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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It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
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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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It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
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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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By accepting life’s limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.
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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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Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
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We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.
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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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