If you wish to live a life free from sorrow, think of what is going to happen as if it had already happened.
EPICTETUSNo matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person.
More Epictetus Quotes
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The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
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People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.
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Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
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Difficulty shows what men are.
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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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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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First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
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We all carry the seeds of greatness within us, but we need an image as a point of focus in order that they may sprout.
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We all dread a bodily paralysis, and would make use of every contrivance to avoid it; but none of us is troubled about a paralysis of the soul.
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Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
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Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
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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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Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power.
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Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
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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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