Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness.
EPICTETUSSmall-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness.
EPICTETUSImagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
EPICTETUSMan is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
EPICTETUSWe all dread a bodily paralysis, and would make use of every contrivance to avoid it; but none of us is troubled about a paralysis of the soul.
EPICTETUSOnly the educated are free.
EPICTETUSIt is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
EPICTETUSKeep 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.
EPICTETUSAll religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
EPICTETUSThe world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
EPICTETUSWisdom means understanding without any doubt that circumstances do not rise to meet our expectations. Events happen as they may. People behave as they will.
EPICTETUSIs freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
EPICTETUSAuthentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.
EPICTETUSHappiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle.
EPICTETUSMen are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
EPICTETUSThe more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
EPICTETUSIf you wish to live a life free from sorrow, think of what is going to happen as if it had already happened.
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