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“No matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person.”
-- Epictetus
#Life #Finding Yourself #Matter
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“Once you know who you are and to whom you are linked, you will know what to do”
-- Epictetus
#Who You Are
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“When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.”
-- Epictetus
#Forgiveness #Spiritual #Anger
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“It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.”
-- Epictetus
#Inspirational #Change #Inspiring
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“If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.”
-- Epictetus
#Love #True Friend #Lying
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“There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.”
-- Epictetus
#Happiness #Success #Being Happy
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“Books are the training weights of the mind.”
-- Epictetus
#Book #Training #Mind
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“Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.”
-- Epictetus
#Friendship #Effort #Training
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“Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.”
-- Epictetus
#Freedom #Philosophical #Wish
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“Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.”
-- Epictetus
#Inspirational #Beauty #Fashion
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“He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.”
-- Epictetus
#Positive #Happiness #Thank You
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“The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.”
-- Epictetus
#Friendship #Best Friend #Uplifting
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“If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.”
-- Epictetus
#Life #Stupid #Silly
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“You can be happy if you know this secret: Some things are within your power to control and some things are not.”
-- Epictetus
#Joy #Secret
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“Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.”
-- Epictetus
#Inspirational #Contentment #Fortresses
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“Difficulties show men what they are. In case of any difficulty, remember that God has pitted you against a rough antagonist that you may be a conqueror, and this cannot be without toil.”
-- Epictetus
#Inspirational #Men #Toil
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“Whatever you would make habitual, practice it; and if you would not make a thing habitual, do not practice it, but accustom yourself to something else.”
-- Epictetus
#Practice
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“Never say about anything, "I have lost it," but only "I have given it back." Is your child dead? It has been given back. Is your wife dead? She has been returned.”
-- Epictetus
#Death #Children #Wife
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“By accepting life's limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.”
-- Epictetus
#Fighting #Limits #Accepting
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“Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.”
-- Epictetus
#Best Wishes #Wish #Ecstasy
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“Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.”
-- Epictetus
#Inspirational #Happiness #Confidence
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“On the occasion of every accident that befalls you, remember to turn to yourself and inquire what power you have for turning it to use.”
-- Epictetus
#Safety #Use #Aviation
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“Don’t consent to be hurt and you won’t be hurt – this is a choice over which you have control”
-- Epictetus
#Hurt #Choices #Consent
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“It’s time to stop being vague. If you wish to be an extraordinary person, if you wish to be wise, then you should explicitly identify the kind of person you aspire to become.”
-- Epictetus
#Wise #Wish #Kind
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“Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.”
-- Epictetus
#Philosophical #Silence #Quiet
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“If you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked.”
-- Epictetus
#Believe #Philosophical #Wicked
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“Seek not the good in external things;seek it in yourselves.”
-- Epictetus
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“He who laughs at himself never runs out of things to laugh at.”
-- Epictetus
#Running #Laughing
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“Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems”
-- Epictetus
#Real #Men #Anxiety
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“No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.”
-- Epictetus
#Inspirational #Matter #Advantage
