Happiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing.
EPICTETUSWhoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.
More Epictetus Quotes
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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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Don’t be concerned with other people’s impressions of you. They are dazzled and deluded by appearances. Stick with your purpose. This alone will strengthen your will and give your life coherence.
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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
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Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power.
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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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Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.
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People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.
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No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.
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If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
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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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Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
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The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
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Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
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First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
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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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