Do not try to seem wise to others.
EPICTETUSThe greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
More Epictetus Quotes
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A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
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Have the wisdom to know what cannot be changed, and the strength to change what can.
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Only the educated are free.
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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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Every difficulty in life presents us with an opportunity to turn inward and to invoke our own submerged inner resources. The trials we endure can and should introduce us to our strengths.
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By accepting life’s limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.
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We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.
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We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.
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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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Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
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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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If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
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The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
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Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
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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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