Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
EPICTETUSHappiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle.
More Epictetus Quotes
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No matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person.
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We all carry the seeds of greatness within us, but we need an image as a point of focus in order that they may sprout.
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Happiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing.
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Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.
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Don’t consent to be hurt and you won’t be hurt – this is a choice over which you have control.
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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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Wisdom means understanding without any doubt that circumstances do not rise to meet our expectations. Events happen as they may. People behave as they 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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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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The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
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Do not try to seem wise to others.
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He who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.
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Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.
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Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.
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It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
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If you seek Truth, you will not seek to gain a victory by every possible means; and when you have found Truth, you need not fear being defeated.
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The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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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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No man is free who is not master of himself.
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All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
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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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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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Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?
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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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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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