Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
EPICTETUSYou become what you give your attention to. If you yourself don’t choose what thoughts and images you expose yourself to, someone else will, and their motives may not be the highest.
More Epictetus Quotes
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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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Do not try to seem wise to others.
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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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The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
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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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Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
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We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.
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All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
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When we blather about trivial things, we ourselves become trivial, for our attention gets taken up with trivialities. You become what you give your attention to.
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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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When you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
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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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Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness.
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Demand not that things happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do, and you will go on well.
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