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“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, The Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness and Effectiveness

tags: philosophy, self-control, stoic, stoicism

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“Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems”
― Epictetus

tags: anxiety, mankind

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“There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will. ”
― Epictetus

tags: happiness, way-to-be

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