It’s time to stop being vague. If you wish to be an extraordinary person, if you wish to be wise, then you should explicitly identify the kind of person you aspire to become.
EPICTETUSTry not to react merely in the moment. Pull back from the situation. Take a wider view. Compose yourself.
More Epictetus Quotes
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Have the wisdom to know what cannot be changed, and the strength to change what can.
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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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All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
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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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We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.
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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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Only the educated are free.
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It is unrealistc to expect people to see you as you see yourself.
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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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If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
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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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Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?
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Don’t live by your own rules, but in harmony with nature.
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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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People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.
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