"When something happens, the only thing in your……" — Epictetus
"When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it. It is not the things that disturb us, but our interpretation of their significance. Things and people are not what we wish them to be nor are they what they seem to be. They are what they are."
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353 Quotes by Epictetus
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It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
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Any person capable of angering you becomes your master.
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Seek not good from without; seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.
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The cause of all human evils is the not being able to apply general principles to special cases.
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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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What is it to be a philosopher? Is it not to be prepared against events?
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