Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.
EPICTETUSAll religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
More Epictetus Quotes
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Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
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The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
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You become what you give your attention to. If you yourself don’t choose what thoughts and images you expose yourself to, someone else will, and their motives may not be the highest.
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We can’t control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character.
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A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
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Desire and happiness cannot live together.
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He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
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Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.
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If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
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Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
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I laugh at those who think they can damage me. They do not know who I am, they do not know what I think, they cannot even touch the things which are really mine and with which I live.
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No man is free who is not master of himself.
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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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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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When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it; you can either accept it or resent it.
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