Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
EPICTETUSImagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
More Epictetus Quotes
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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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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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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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Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
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It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
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No matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person.
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Books are the training weights of the mind.
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If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
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Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
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It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
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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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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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First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
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If you seek Truth, you will not seek to gain a victory by every possible means; and when you have found Truth, you need not fear being defeated.
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It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
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