Don’t consent to be hurt and you won’t be hurt – this is a choice over which you have control.
EPICTETUSNo matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person.
More Epictetus Quotes
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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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The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
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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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Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness.
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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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Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
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Desire and happiness cannot live together.
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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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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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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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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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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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No man is free who is not master of himself.
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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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Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control.
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Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
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Don’t live by your own rules, but in harmony with nature.
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The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
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The best place to get help is from yourself.
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Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.
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Difficulty shows what men are.
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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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If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
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If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
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