Don’t live by your own rules, but in harmony with nature.
EPICTETUSThe essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
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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Have the wisdom to know what cannot be changed, and the strength to change what can.
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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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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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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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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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Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
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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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Only the educated are free.
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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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The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
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Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.
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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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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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