Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
EPICTETUSAnything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
More Epictetus Quotes
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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
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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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Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle.
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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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If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
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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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Happiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing.
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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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Only the educated are free.
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The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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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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In prosperity it is very easy to find a friend; but in adversity it is the most difficult of all things.
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Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
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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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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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