If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
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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The best place to get help is from yourself.
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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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Every difficulty in life presents us with an opportunity to turn inward and to invoke our own submerged inner resources. The trials we endure can and should introduce us to our strengths.
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Don’t live by your own rules, but in harmony with nature.
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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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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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Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
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Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.
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Freedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness.
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Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
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No matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person.
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The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
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No man is free who is not master of himself.
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