First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
EPICTETUSIn 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.
More Epictetus Quotes
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Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.
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Wisdom means understanding without any doubt that circumstances do not rise to meet our expectations. Events happen as they may. People behave as they will.
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Only the educated are free.
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It takes more than just a good looking body. You’ve got to have the heart and soul to go with it.
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It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
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You have been given your own work to do. Get to it right now, do your best at it, and don’t be concerned with who is watching you. Create your own merit.
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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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Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.
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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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It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
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What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
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No man is free who is not master of himself.
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Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?
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What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
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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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