Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
EPICTETUSKnow you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?
More Epictetus Quotes
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If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
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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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If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
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You become what you give your attention to. If you yourself don’t choose what thoughts and images you expose yourself to, someone else will, and their motives may not be the highest.
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Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
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Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.
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It is unrealistc to expect people to see you as you see yourself.
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Do not try to seem wise to others.
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Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.
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The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
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Other people’s views and troubles can be contagious. Don’t sabotage yourself by unwittingly adopting negative, unproductive attitudes through your associations with others.
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We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.
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Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.
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He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
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