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.
EPICTETUSNo matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.
More Epictetus Quotes
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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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We can’t control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character.
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Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
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First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
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Try not to react merely in the moment. Pull back from the situation. Take a wider view. Compose yourself.
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It is more necessary for the soul to be cured than the body; for it is better to die than to live badly.
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It takes more than just a good looking body. You’ve got to have the heart and soul to go with it.
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The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
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Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
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You become what you give your attention to. If you yourself don’t choose what thoughts and images you expose yourself to, someone else will, and their motives may not be the highest.
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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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Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
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Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness.
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Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.
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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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Do not try to seem wise to others.
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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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Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
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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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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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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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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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Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?
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Wisdom means understanding without any doubt that circumstances do not rise to meet our expectations. Events happen as they may. People behave as they will.
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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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Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
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