Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.
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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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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It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
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Difficulty shows what men are.
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There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will.
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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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Don’t consent to be hurt and you won’t be hurt – this is a choice over which you have control.
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Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness.
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Try not to react merely in the moment. Pull back from the situation. Take a wider view. Compose yourself.
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Books are the training weights of the mind.
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When you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
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Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.
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Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
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Wisdom means understanding without any doubt that circumstances do not rise to meet our expectations. Events happen as they may. People behave as they will.
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Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle.
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No man is free who is not master of himself.
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