Epictetus Quote: Give me by all means the shorter and nobler...

Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!

— Epictetus

longer account one instead shorter

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It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

— Epictetus

The will of nature is to be learned out of things
in which we do not differ from each other.

— Epictetus

Source: Enchiridion - 135

It is hard to combine and unite these two qualities, the carefulness of one who is affected by circumstances, and the intrepidity of one who heeds them not. But it is not impossible: else were happiness also impossible.

— Epictetus

Source: Golden Sayings of Epictetus

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