The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
EPICTETUSWe 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.
More Epictetus Quotes
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Freedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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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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If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
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Books are the training weights of the mind.
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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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Difficulty shows what men are.
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Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
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Other people’s views and troubles can be contagious. Don’t sabotage yourself by unwittingly adopting negative, unproductive attitudes through your associations with others.
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Try not to react merely in the moment. Pull back from the situation. Take a wider view. Compose yourself.
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Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.
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Desire and happiness cannot live together.
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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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We can’t control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character.
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Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.
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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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