Other people’s views and troubles can be contagious. Don’t sabotage yourself by unwittingly adopting negative, unproductive attitudes through your associations with others.
EPICTETUSAttach yourself to what is spiritually superior, regardless of what other people think or do. Hold to your true aspirations no matter what is going on around you.
More Epictetus Quotes
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Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
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Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
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First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
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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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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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We can’t control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character.
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He who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.
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Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
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The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
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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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It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
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Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle.
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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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Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
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