No matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person.
EPICTETUSA ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
More Epictetus Quotes
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Don’t live by your own rules, but in harmony with nature.
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Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
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First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
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A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
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The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
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The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
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We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.
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To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.
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We all dread a bodily paralysis, and would make use of every contrivance to avoid it; but none of us is troubled about a paralysis of the soul.
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Have the wisdom to know what cannot be changed, and the strength to change what can.
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In prosperity it is very easy to find a friend; but in adversity it is the most difficult of all things.
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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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Desire and happiness cannot live together.
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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.
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We can’t control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character.
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