Don’t be concerned with other people’s impressions of you. They are dazzled and deluded by appearances. Stick with your purpose. This alone will strengthen your will and give your life coherence.
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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Don’t live by your own rules, but in harmony with nature.
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If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
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Renew every day your conversation with God: Do this even in preference to eating. Think more often of God than you breathe.
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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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By accepting life’s limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.
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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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Difficulty shows what men are.
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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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Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
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We all dread a bodily paralysis, and would make use of every contrivance to avoid it; but none of us is troubled about a paralysis of the soul.
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Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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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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It takes more than just a good looking body. You’ve got to have the heart and soul to go with it.
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If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
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It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
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