He who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.
EPICTETUSNo matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.
More Epictetus Quotes
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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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When we blather about trivial things, we ourselves become trivial, for our attention gets taken up with trivialities. You become what you give your attention to.
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It’s so simple really: If you say you’re going to do something, do it. If you start something, finish it.
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It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
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Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.
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Have the wisdom to know what cannot be changed, and the strength to change what can.
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Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
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All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
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Demand not that things happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do, and you will go on well.
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Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
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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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Freedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will.
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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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If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
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