00:00We have two ears and one mouth so that we could listen more and talk twice as much.
00:06Epictetus
00:09It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that is all that matters.
00:16Epictetus
00:19Man is not worried by real things, but by artificial concerns he invents for himself, concerning what may or may
00:26not happen.
00:28Epictetus
00:31The key is to keep company only with those who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
00:39Epictetus
00:42Don't try to make things happen, but try to make yourself happen.
00:48Epictetus
00:51He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those
00:56which he has.
00:59Epictetus
01:02We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them.
01:09Epictetus
01:13First, say to yourself what you would be, and then do what you have to do.
01:19Epictetus
01:22Wealth is not in possessions, but in the quality of our mind.
01:27Epictetus
01:30Men are disturbed not by things, but by the views which they take of them.
01:37Epictetus
01:40If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
01:46Epictetus
01:49It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
01:55Epictetus
01:58The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
02:04Epictetus
02:07Require not things to happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do happen, and you will
02:13go on well.
02:15Epictetus
02:27Demand not that events should happen as you please, but rather wish that as they happen, so be for you.
02:34Epictetus
02:38It is not death or hardship that is a man's misfortune, but is thinking so.
02:44Epictetus
02:47A person is a fool not to be amazed by the miracle of his own existence.
02:54Epictetus
02:57Do not seek for things to happen the way you want them to, but rather wish that the way they
03:02happen is the way you want them.
03:03Epictetus
03:05Epictetus
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