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.
EPICTETUSDon’t live by your own rules, but in harmony with nature.
More Epictetus Quotes
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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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It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
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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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Desire and happiness cannot live together.
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Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
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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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All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
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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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Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
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Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle.
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People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.
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You can be happy if you know this secret: Some things are within your power to control and some things are not.
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Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
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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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Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
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