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Epictetus compares changing clothes to changing thoughts. He points out that unhappiness comes from our views, not the events themselves. He says we should drop old habits like worn garments and wear new ones. He reminds us that opinions, not things, disturb us.

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Let no man think that he is loved by any who loveth none.

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Man is not fully free unless he is master of himself.

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God has made all men to be happy.

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Difficulty shows what men are.

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It is difficulties that show what men are.

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Not things, but opinions about things, trouble men.

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Men are not afraid of things, but of how they view them.

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Try to enjoy the great festival of life with other men!

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It is not events that disturb the minds of men, but the view they take of them.

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It is no easy thing for a principle to become a man's own unless each day he maintains it and works it…

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Asked, Who is the rich man? Epictetus replied, �He who is content.

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Circumstances don't make the man, they only reveal him to himself.

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Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.

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What disturbs and alarms man are not the things, but his opinions and fancies about the things.

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If a man is unhappy, remember that his unhappiness is his own fault, for God made all men to be happy.

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It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.

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These are the signs of a wise man: to reprove nobody, to praise nobody, to blame nobody, nor even to speak of…

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When a man is proud because he can understand and explain the writings of Chrysippus, say to yourself, 'if Chrysippus had not…

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Law intends indeed to do service to human life, but it is not able when men do not choose to accept her…

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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,…

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What is it that every man seeks? To be secure, to be happy, to do what he pleases without restraint and without…

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Men are not worried by things, but by their ideas about things. When we meet with difficulties, become anxious or troubled, let…

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If you think you control things that are in the control of others, you will lament. You will be disturbed and you…

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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…

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Remember that you are an actor in a drama of such sort as the Author chooses: if short, then in a short…

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Is freedom anything else than the power of living as we choose? Nothing else. Tell me then, you men, do you wish…

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Appearances to the mind are of four kinds. Things either are what they appear to be; or they neither are, nor appear…

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A guide, on finding a man who has lost his way, brings him back to the right path—he does not mock and…

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Difficulty shows what men are. Therefore when a difficulty falls upon you, remember that God, like a trainer of wrestlers, has matched…

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When men are unhappy, they do not imagine they can ever cease to be so; and when some calamity has fallen on…

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You know yourself what you are worth in your own eyes; and at what price you will sell yourself. For men sell…

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What else can I do, a lame old man, but sing hymns to God? If I were a nightingale, I would do…

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You know yourself what you are worth in your own eyes; and at what price you will sell yourself. For men sell…

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The good or ill of a man lies within his own will.

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No man is disturbed by things, but by his opinion about things.

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I am not eternity, but a man; a part of the whole, as an hour is of the day.

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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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Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems

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It were no slight attainment could we merely fulfil what the nature of man implies.

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Some of their faults men readily admit, but others not so readily.

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Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things, and then proceed to greater.

Do not laugh much or often or unrestrainedly.

When men are unhappy, they do not imagine they can ever cease to be so; and when some calamity has fallen on them, they…

We are not disturbed by what happens to us, but by our thoughts about what happens to us.

Don't be prideful with any excellence that is not your own

You know yourself what you are worth in your own eyes; and at what price you will sell yourself. For men sell themselves at…

Crows pick out the eyes of the dead, when the dead have no longer need of them; but flatterers mar the soul of the…

As a man, casting off worn out garments taketh new ones, so the dweller in the body, entereth into ones that are new.

If you would improve, submit to be considered wihout sense and foolish with respect to externals. Wish to be considered to know nothing; and…

“For it is not death or pain that is to be feared, but the fear of pain or death.”

What else can I do, a lame old man, but sing hymns to God? If I were a nightingale, I would do the nightingale's…

People are disturbed not by things, but by the view they take of them.

“Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness”

All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.