The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
EPICTETUSWhen you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
More Epictetus Quotes
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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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If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
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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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In trying to please other people, we find ourselves misdirected toward what lies outside our sphere of influence. In doing so, we lose our hold on our lifes purpose.
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Renew every day your conversation with God: Do this even in preference to eating. Think more often of God than you breathe.
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Don’t live by your own rules, but in harmony with nature.
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Difficulty shows what men are.
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The best place to get help is from yourself.
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Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.
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Books are the training weights of the mind.
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Freedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
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What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
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Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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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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