Books are the training weights of the mind.
EPICTETUSDon’t live by your own rules, but in harmony with nature.
More Epictetus Quotes
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The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
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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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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
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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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Freedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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Don’t be concerned with other people’s impressions of you. They are dazzled and deluded by appearances. Stick with your purpose. This alone will strengthen your will and give your life coherence.
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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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To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.
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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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If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
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No man is free who is not master of himself.
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It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
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If you wish to live a life free from sorrow, think of what is going to happen as if it had already happened.
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First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
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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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