We can’t control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character.
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 you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
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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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It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
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It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
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It is more necessary for the soul to be cured than the body; for it is better to die than to live badly.
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Do not try to seem wise to others.
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It is better to die of hunger having lived without grief and fear, than to live with a troubled spirit, amid abundance.
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Only the educated are free.
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Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
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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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Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.
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Difficulty shows what men are.
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People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.
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Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
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Don’t demand or expect that events happen as you would wish them do. Accept events as they actually happen. That way, peace is possible.
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