Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.
EPICTETUSDon’t live by your own rules, but in harmony with nature.
More Epictetus Quotes
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Do not try to seem wise to others.
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Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
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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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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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I laugh at those who think they can damage me. They do not know who I am, they do not know what I think, they cannot even touch the things which are really mine and with which I live.
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Happiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing.
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Only the educated are free.
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First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
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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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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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What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
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If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
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Desire and happiness cannot live together.
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The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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Difficulty shows what men are.
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