Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
EPICTETUSTentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.
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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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First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
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Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
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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’s so simple really: If you say you’re going to do something, do it. If you start something, finish it.
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Try not to react merely in the moment. Pull back from the situation. Take a wider view. Compose yourself.
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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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Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control.
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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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What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
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Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.
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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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All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
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Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
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He who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.
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