If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
EPICTETUSHappiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing.
More Epictetus Quotes
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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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Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
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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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The best place to get help is from yourself.
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If you seek Truth, you will not seek to gain a victory by every possible means; and when you have found Truth, you need not fear being defeated.
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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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If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
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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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Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
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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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When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it; you can either accept it or resent it.
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Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?
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Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
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You can be happy if you know this secret: Some things are within your power to control and some things are not.
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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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