Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. - Albert Schweitzer
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Top 14 Quotes of Greek Stoic Philosopher Epictetus to Live By
Top 14 Quotes of Greek Stoic Philosopher Epictetus to Live By
“No one is ever unhappy because of someone else.” – Epictetus
“Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.” – Epictetus
“Attach yourself to what is spiritually superior, regardless of what other people think or do. Hold to your true aspirations no matter what is going on around you.” – Epictetus
“No man is free who is not master of himself.” –…
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We cannot choose our external circumstances ~ @philosophytweet
We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose
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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.
Epictetus
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We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgment about them.
Epictetus
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It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
-Epictetus
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As the sun does not wait for prayers and incantations to rise, but shines forth and is welcomed by all: so you also should not wait for clapping of hands and shouts and praise to do your duty; but do good of your own accord, and you will be loved like the sun.
Epictetus, Fragments
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“Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.”
— Epictetus
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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.
Epictetus
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