What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
EPICTETUSIt’s so simple really: If you say you’re going to do something, do it. If you start something, finish it.
More Epictetus Quotes
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The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
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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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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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A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
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Freedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
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There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will.
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He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
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Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
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If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
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When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it; you can either accept it or resent it.
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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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No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.
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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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