The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
EPICTETUSYou 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.
More Epictetus Quotes
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If you wish to live a life free from sorrow, think of what is going to happen as if it had already happened.
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Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
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If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
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Attach yourself to what is spiritually superior, regardless of what other people think or do. Hold to your true aspirations no matter what is going on around you.
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A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
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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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It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
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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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It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.
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By accepting life’s limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.
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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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First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
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The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
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We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.
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