Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
EPICTETUSHappiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle.
More Epictetus Quotes
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It takes more than just a good looking body. You’ve got to have the heart and soul to go with it.
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First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
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Happiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing.
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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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It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
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The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
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Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
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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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Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
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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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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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Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness.
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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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Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?
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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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