Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
EPICTETUSAny person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.
More Epictetus Quotes
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Desire and happiness cannot live together.
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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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Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
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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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Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.
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Every difficulty in life presents us with an opportunity to turn inward and to invoke our own submerged inner resources. The trials we endure can and should introduce us to our strengths.
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It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
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Other people’s views and troubles can be contagious. Don’t sabotage yourself by unwittingly adopting negative, unproductive attitudes through your associations with others.
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Renew every day your conversation with God: Do this even in preference to eating. Think more often of God than you breathe.
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Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
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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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Freedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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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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Don’t demand or expect that events happen as you would wish them do. Accept events as they actually happen. That way, peace is possible.
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Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle.
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