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Not things, but opinions about things, trouble men.

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Epictetus
Philosopher
Epictetus of Hierapolis
Opinions
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Opinion
Things
Men
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No man is disturbed by things, but by his opinion about things.
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He who laughs at himself never runs out of things to laugh at.
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Things true and evident must of necessity be recognized by those who would contradict them.
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Neither the victories of the Olympic Games nor those achieved in battles make the man happy. The only victories that make him happy are those achieved against himself. Temptations and tests are combats. You have beaten one, two, many times still fight. If you defeat at last you will be happy your entire life, as if you have always defeated.
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If I can acquire money and also keep myself modest and faithful and magnanimous, point out the way, and I will acquire it.
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Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.
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Choose the life that is noblest, for custom can make it sweet to thee.
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It is not so much what happens to you as how you think about what happens. Epictetus
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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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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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Remember that you are but an actor, acting whatever part the Master has ordained. It may be short or it may be long. If he wishes you to represent a poor man, do so heartily if a cripple, or a magistrate, or a private man, in each case act your part with honor.
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Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems
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Asked, Who is the rich man? Epictetus replied, �He who is content.
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Here is the beginning of philosophy: a recognition of the conflicts between men, a search for their cause, a condemnation of mere opinion .. . and the discovery of a standard of judgement.
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No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.
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It is your own convictions which compels you that is, choice compels choice.
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No man is free who is not master of himself... Is freedom anything else than the power of living as we choose?
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Every habit and faculty is preserved and increased by correspondent actions, as the habit of walking, by walking of running, by running.
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If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself: 'I used to be angry every day then every other day now only every third or fourth day.' When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods.
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Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
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