What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
EPICTETUSDon’t live by your own rules, but in harmony with nature.
More Epictetus Quotes
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Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
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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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Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.
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Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control.
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Only the educated are free.
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He who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.
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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
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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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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.
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There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will.
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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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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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When we blather about trivial things, we ourselves become trivial, for our attention gets taken up with trivialities. You become what you give your attention to.
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If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
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Attach yourself to what is spiritually superior, regardless of what other people think or do. Hold to your true aspirations no matter what is going on around you.
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