Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
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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It’s so simple really: If you say you’re going to do something, do it. If you start something, finish it.
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First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
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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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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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What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
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He who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.
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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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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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Difficulty shows what men are.
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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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The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
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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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All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
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The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
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Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
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