Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
EPICTETUSCircumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
More Epictetus Quotes
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Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle.
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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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Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.
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Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
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By accepting life’s limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.
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When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it; you can either accept it or resent it.
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Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
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Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?
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No man is free who is not master of himself.
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A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
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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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Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
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It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
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It is more necessary for the soul to be cured than the body; for it is better to die than to live badly.
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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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