The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
EPICTETUSOther people’s views and troubles can be contagious. Don’t sabotage yourself by unwittingly adopting negative, unproductive attitudes through your associations with others.
More Epictetus Quotes
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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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Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
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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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All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
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Desire and happiness cannot live together.
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First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
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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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No matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person.
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Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
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Freedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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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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Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
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Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.
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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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