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.
EPICTETUSIf evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
More Epictetus Quotes
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Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
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It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
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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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It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
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Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
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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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Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
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Difficulty shows what men are.
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First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
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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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Demand not that things happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do, and you will go on well.
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Books are the training weights of the mind.
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Don’t live by your own rules, but in harmony with nature.
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Wisdom means understanding without any doubt that circumstances do not rise to meet our expectations. Events happen as they may. People behave as they will.
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If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
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