It is unrealistc to expect people to see you as you see yourself.
EPICTETUSHe who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.
More Epictetus Quotes
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Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
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Difficulty shows what men are.
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Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.
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By accepting life’s limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.
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Do not try to seem wise to others.
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If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
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The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
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Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
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First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
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You have been given your own work to do. Get to it right now, do your best at it, and don’t be concerned with who is watching you. Create your own merit.
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Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
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It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
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It’s so simple really: If you say you’re going to do something, do it. If you start something, finish it.
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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
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It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous, even death is terrible only if we fear it.
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