Desire and happiness cannot live together.
EPICTETUSHe who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.
More Epictetus Quotes
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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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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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Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
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All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
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People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.
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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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If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
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Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.
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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’s time to stop being vague. If you wish to be an extraordinary person, if you wish to be wise, then you should explicitly identify the kind of person you aspire to become.
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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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A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
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It is more necessary for the soul to be cured than the body; for it is better to die than to live badly.
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To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.
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The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
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