Desire and happiness cannot live together.
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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Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.
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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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Books are the training weights of the mind.
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Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
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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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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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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 matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.
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The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
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Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
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You can be happy if you know this secret: Some things are within your power to control and some things are not.
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Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
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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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Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
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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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