100+ Epictetus Quotes | Minimalist Quotes

Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
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Accident Achievement Improvement Inspirational Luck Progress
Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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Believe Healing One Liner Recover Ruin
People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.
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Disturb Human Nature Imagination People
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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Demand Happen Inspirational Satisfaction
First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
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Goodness Learning Manner Speak
To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.
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Deed Inspirational Life Live Virtue
Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
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Anxiety Imagination Man Problem Worry
In prosperity it is very easy to find a friend; but in adversity it is the most difficult of all things.
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Adversity Difficult Finding Friendship Prosperity
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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Attitude Damage Laugh Live Thinking
Do not try to seem wise to others.
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Inspirational Life One Liner Try Wise
Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?
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Appearance Done Goodness Inspirational Man Sake
When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it; you can either accept it or resent it.
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Acceptance Attitude Happen Ignorance Power
It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.
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Attitude Insult Let Go Opinion Philosophy Strike
Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
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Explanation Express Philosophy
Have the wisdom to know what cannot be changed, and the strength to change what can.
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Business Change Inspirational Strength Success Wisdom
It is better to die of hunger having lived without grief and fear, than to live with a troubled spirit, amid abundance.
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Abundance Die Fear Hunger Live Trouble
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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Body Goodness Heart Inspirational Look Soul
Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness.
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Average Blame Character Foolish People Wise
If 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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Freedom Inspirational Let Go Life Live Sorrow
If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
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Content Fools Improvement Stupid Want
It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
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Handle Happen Inspirational Matter Reaction
No man is free who is not master of himself.
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Freedom Himself Inspirational Master One Liner
First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
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Believe Motivational Yourself
Desire and happiness cannot live together.
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Desire Happiness Live One Liner Togetherness
Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control.
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Control Hold Inspirational Positive Stop True
If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
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Evil Laugh Speak True Yourself
We can’t control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character.
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Character Control Effort Impression

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