By accepting life’s limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.
EPICTETUSDon’t be concerned with other people’s impressions of you. They are dazzled and deluded by appearances. Stick with your purpose. This alone will strengthen your will and give your life coherence.
More Epictetus Quotes
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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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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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First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
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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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All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
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We all carry the seeds of greatness within us, but we need an image as a point of focus in order that they may sprout.
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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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Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
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Difficulty shows what men are.
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We can’t control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character.
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Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
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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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Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
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No great thing is created suddenly. There must be time. Give your best and always be kind.
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We all dread a bodily paralysis, and would make use of every contrivance to avoid it; but none of us is troubled about a paralysis of the soul.
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