Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
EPICTETUSFreedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
More Epictetus Quotes
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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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If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
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A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
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Do not try to seem wise to others.
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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.
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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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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 wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
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Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle.
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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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Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
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We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.
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It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.
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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
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