It takes more than just a good looking body. You’ve got to have the heart and soul to go with it.
EPICTETUSTentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.
More Epictetus Quotes
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It is better to die of hunger having lived without grief and fear, than to live with a troubled spirit, amid abundance.
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Have the wisdom to know what cannot be changed, and the strength to change what can.
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We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.
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Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
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Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle.
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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 can be happy if you know this secret: Some things are within your power to control and some things are not.
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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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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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Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.
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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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The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.
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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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Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
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