Don’t live by your own rules, but in harmony with nature.
EPICTETUSWhoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.
More Epictetus Quotes
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We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.
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In prosperity it is very easy to find a friend; but in adversity it is the most difficult of all things.
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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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If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
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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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First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
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It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
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He who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.
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You can be happy if you know this secret: Some things are within your power to control and some things are not.
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A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
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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 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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Do not try to seem wise to others.
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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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