Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.
EPICTETUSDemand not that things happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do, and you will go on well.
More Epictetus Quotes
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Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.
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It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.
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Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness.
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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
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Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
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It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
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People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.
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Do not try to seem wise to others.
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The best place to get help is from yourself.
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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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In prosperity it is very easy to find a friend; but in adversity it is the most difficult of all things.
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Don’t consent to be hurt and you won’t be hurt – this is a choice over which you have control.
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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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When you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
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If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
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Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
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It is more necessary for the soul to be cured than the body; for it is better to die than to live badly.
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It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
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The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
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In trying to please other people, we find ourselves misdirected toward what lies outside our sphere of influence. In doing so, we lose our hold on our lifes purpose.
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Attach yourself to what is spiritually superior, regardless of what other people think or do. Hold to your true aspirations no matter what is going on around you.
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If you wish to live a life free from sorrow, think of what is going to happen as if it had already happened.
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The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
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Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
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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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All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
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