Remember, it is not enough to be hit or insulted to be harmed, you must believe that you are being harmed. If someone succeeds in provoking you, realize that your mind is complicit in the provocation. Which is why it is essential that we not respond impulsively to impressions; take a moment before reacting, and you will find it easier to maintain control? - Epictetus
Common and vulgar people ascribe all ills that they feel to others; people of little wisdom ascribe to themselves; people of much wisdom, to no one. - Epictetus
It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it. - Epictetus
Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public. - Epictetus
Covetousness like jealousy, when it has taken root, never leaves a person, but with their life. Cowardice is the dread of what will happen. - Epictetus
One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent. - Epictetus
Remember that you are an actor in a drama, of such a part as it may please the master to assign you, for a long time or for a little as he may choose. And if he will you to take the part of a poor man, or a cripple, or a ruler, or a private citizen, then may you act that part with grace! For to act well the part that is allotted to us, that indeed is ours to do, but to choose it is anothers. - Epictetus
Any person capable of angering you becomes your master. He can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him. - Epictetus
When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger. - Epictetus
It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting. - Epictetus
If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it. - Epictetus
To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete. - Epictetus
Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world. - Epictetus
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