We can’t control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character.
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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All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
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People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.
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It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
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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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Freedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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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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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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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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He who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.
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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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Every difficulty in life presents us with an opportunity to turn inward and to invoke our own submerged inner resources. The trials we endure can and should introduce us to our strengths.
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Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.
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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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In trying to please other people, we find ourselves misdirected toward what lies outside our sphere of influence. In doing so, we lose our hold on our lifes purpose.
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If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
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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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Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
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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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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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Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control.
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First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
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The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
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What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
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If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
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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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We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.
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