"It is not events that disturb the minds……" — Epictetus

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

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353 Quotes by Epictetus

Epictetus has 353 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Common and vulgar people ascribe all ills that they feel to others; people of little wisdom ascribe to themselves; people…
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
A half-hearted spirit has no power. Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcomes. Average people enter into their endeavors headlong and…
Freedom is secured not by the fulfillment of one's desires, but by the removal of desire.
Any person capable of angering you becomes your master.
To pay homage to beauty is to admire Nature; to admire Nature is to worship God
Give yourself fully to your endeavors. Decide to construct your character through excellent actions and determine to pay the price…
Seek not good from without; seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.
Why, do you not know, then, that the origin of all human evils, and of baseness, and cowardice, is not…
The cause of all human evils is the not being able to apply general principles to special cases.
I am not eternity, but a man; a part of the whole, as an hour is of the day.
What is it to be a philosopher? Is it not to be prepared against events?

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More Disturb Quotes

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Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason… — Marcus Aurelius
Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which… — Teresa of Avila
The message of great art is to disturb. — Elayne Boosler
What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us. — Hermann Hesse
Any attempt to disturb the deadly routine of instruction is looked upon as sabotage. And the notion that the aims… — Charles Ferguson
Do I dare disturb the universe? — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every… — Henry David Thoreau
Ere long intelligence-transmitted without wires-will throb through the earth like a pulse through a living organism. The wonder is that,… — Nikola Tesla
Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love - that makes life and nature… — George Eliot
If your heart has peace, nothing can disturb you. — Dalai Lama
Whether humanity will consciously follow the law of love, I do not know. But that need not disturb me. The… — Mahatma Gandhi
Being single doesn't necessarily mean you're available. Sometimes you have to put up a sign that says "Do Not Disturb"… — Wiz Khalifa

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