We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.
EPICTETUSMen are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
More Epictetus Quotes
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Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
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The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
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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 more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
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It takes more than just a good looking body. You’ve got to have the heart and soul to go with it.
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Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.
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Don’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.
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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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Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.
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Only the educated are free.
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If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
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Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
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Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
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Don’t consent to be hurt and you won’t be hurt – this is a choice over which you have control.
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It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
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Desire and happiness cannot live together.
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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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It is unrealistc to expect people to see you as you see yourself.
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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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First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
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Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.
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First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
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Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
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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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The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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