Happiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing.
EPICTETUSImagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
More Epictetus Quotes
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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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Books are the training weights of the mind.
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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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All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
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It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
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No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.
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First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
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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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To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.
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Freedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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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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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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We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.
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Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness.
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