Don’t consent to be hurt and you won’t be hurt – this is a choice over which you have control.
EPICTETUSIt 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.
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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Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
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No matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person.
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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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Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
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Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
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He who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.
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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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All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
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If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
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Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.
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Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
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He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
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We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.
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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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