It is unrealistc to expect people to see you as you see yourself.
EPICTETUSWe can’t control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character.
More Epictetus Quotes
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Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.
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The best place to get help is from yourself.
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All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
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He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
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We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.
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Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control.
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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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He who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.
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If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
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It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.
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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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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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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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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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Only the educated are free.
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