Do not try to seem wise to others.
EPICTETUSMen are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
More Epictetus Quotes
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Only the educated are free.
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Have the wisdom to know what cannot be changed, and the strength to change what can.
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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 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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Don’t live by your own rules, but in harmony with nature.
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He who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.
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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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Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
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Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
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We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.
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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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Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.
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No matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person.
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Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
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All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
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