It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
EPICTETUSDon’t live by your own rules, but in harmony with nature.
More Epictetus Quotes
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Try not to react merely in the moment. Pull back from the situation. Take a wider view. Compose yourself.
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Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness.
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Demand not that things happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do, and you will go on well.
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Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
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The best place to get help is from yourself.
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Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
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Desire and happiness cannot live together.
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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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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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Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
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Freedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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No matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person.
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Do not try to seem wise to others.
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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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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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