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Best Them Quotes by Epictetus
- Don't just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating and reflective person.…
- Don't seek to have events happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do happen, and all will be well with you.
- Men are not afraid of things, but of how they view them.
- We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them.
- Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.
- Men are disturbed not by things, but by the views which they take of them
- Do not seek to have events happen as you want them to, but instead want them to happen as they do happen, and your life…
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