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.
EPICTETUSThe best place to get help is from yourself.
More Epictetus Quotes
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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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Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
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Other people’s views and troubles can be contagious. Don’t sabotage yourself by unwittingly adopting negative, unproductive attitudes through your associations with others.
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Try not to react merely in the moment. Pull back from the situation. Take a wider view. Compose yourself.
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Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
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Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
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Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness.
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Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
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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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All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
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The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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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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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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If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
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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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