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Epictetus of Hierapolis
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Have the wisdom to know what cannot be changed, and the strength to change what can.
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Let silence be your general rule or say only what is necessary and in few words.
Epictetus
An ignorant person is inclined to blame others for his own misfortune. To blame oneself is proof of progress. But the wise man never has to blame another or himself.
Epictetus
One of the best ways to elevate your character is to emulate worthy role models
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Survey and test a prospective action before undertaking it. Before you proceed, step back and look at the big picture, lest you act rashly on raw impulse.
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The materials are indifferent, but the use we make of them is not a matter of indifference.
Epictetus
It is not my place in society that makes me well off, but my judgements, and these I can carry with me... These alone are my own and cannot be taken away.
Epictetus
Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.
Epictetus
Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control. Stop aspiring to be anyone other than your own best self: for that does fall within your control.
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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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It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
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No living being is held by anything so strongly as by its own needs. Whatever therefore appears a hindrance to these, be it brother, or father, or child, or mistress, or friend, is hated, abhorred, execrated.
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To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.
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If you wish to be a writer, write.
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If we are not stupid or insincere when we say that the good or ill of man lies within his own will, and that all beside is nothing to us, why are we still troubled?
Epictetus
The origin of sorrow is this: to wish for something that does not come to pass.
Epictetus
Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems
Epictetus
The pleasure which we most rarely experience gives us greatest delight.
Epictetus
Try not to react merely in the moment. Pull back from the situation. Take a wider view. Compose yourself.
Epictetus
If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
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