To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.
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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Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle.
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The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
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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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Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
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If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
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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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No man is free who is not master of himself.
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Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
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We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.
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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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No great thing is created suddenly. There must be time. Give your best and always be kind.
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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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He who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.
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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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If you seek Truth, you will not seek to gain a victory by every possible means; and when you have found Truth, you need not fear being defeated.
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