Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?
EPICTETUSWhen something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it; you can either accept it or resent it.
More Epictetus Quotes
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Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.
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No great thing is created suddenly. There must be time. Give your best and always be kind.
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First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
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Freedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
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We all carry the seeds of greatness within us, but we need an image as a point of focus in order that they may sprout.
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Happiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing.
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A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
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Renew every day your conversation with God: Do this even in preference to eating. Think more often of God than you breathe.
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If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
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We all dread a bodily paralysis, and would make use of every contrivance to avoid it; but none of us is troubled about a paralysis of the soul.
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Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control.
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Only the educated are free.
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Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
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People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.
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