Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.
EPICTETUSIf 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.
More Epictetus Quotes
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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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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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When we blather about trivial things, we ourselves become trivial, for our attention gets taken up with trivialities. You become what you give your attention to.
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Freedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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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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Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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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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What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
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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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Desire and happiness cannot live together.
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Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
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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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Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
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Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle.
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If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
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