If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
EPICTETUSWhen we blather about trivial things, we ourselves become trivial, for our attention gets taken up with trivialities. You become what you give your attention to.
More Epictetus Quotes
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Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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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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By accepting life’s limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.
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Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.
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Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.
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The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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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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No matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person.
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Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
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It is better to die of hunger having lived without grief and fear, than to live with a troubled spirit, amid abundance.
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All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
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Demand not that things happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do, and you will go on well.
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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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Books are the training weights of the mind.
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Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness.
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