Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
EPICTETUSDon’t consent to be hurt and you won’t be hurt – this is a choice over which you have control.
More Epictetus Quotes
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If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
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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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To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.
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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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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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It takes more than just a good looking body. You’ve got to have the heart and soul to go with it.
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The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
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Have the wisdom to know what cannot be changed, and the strength to change what can.
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It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
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Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
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Every difficulty in life presents us with an opportunity to turn inward and to invoke our own submerged inner resources. The trials we endure can and should introduce us to our strengths.
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If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
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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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First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
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When you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
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