Happiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing.
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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Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
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Do not try to seem wise to others.
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Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.
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It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
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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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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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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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Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.
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Other people’s views and troubles can be contagious. Don’t sabotage yourself by unwittingly adopting negative, unproductive attitudes through your associations with others.
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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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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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He who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.
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Books are the training weights of the mind.
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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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In prosperity it is very easy to find a friend; but in adversity it is the most difficult of all things.
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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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Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.
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We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.
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Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
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The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
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All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
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Desire and happiness cannot live together.
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Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
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Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
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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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