Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
EPICTETUSWhat concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
More Epictetus Quotes
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We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.
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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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Try not to react merely in the moment. Pull back from the situation. Take a wider view. Compose yourself.
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We all carry the seeds of greatness within us, but we need an image as a point of focus in order that they may sprout.
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In trying to please other people, we find ourselves misdirected toward what lies outside our sphere of influence. In doing so, we lose our hold on our lifes purpose.
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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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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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Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.
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Other people’s views and troubles can be contagious. Don’t sabotage yourself by unwittingly adopting negative, unproductive attitudes through your associations with others.
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First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
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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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Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?
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It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
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To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.
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Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
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