"You cannot control external events, but you can control the way you react to them."
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Epictetus is one of the Stoic philosophers.
More quotes from Epictetus
- "Do not wait for things to happen as you wish. Wish for them to happen as they do."
- "Evil resides not in things, but in the human mind."
- "Do not seek praise. Do your work as well as you can and praise will come of its own accord."
- "Freedom is not wanting anything, fearing nothing."
- "Judge a person not by what they achieve, but by what they overcome."