It’s so simple really: If you say you’re going to do something, do it. If you start something, finish it.
EPICTETUSThere is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will.
More Epictetus Quotes
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Only the educated are free.
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All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
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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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You 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.
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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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Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
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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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It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.
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Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.
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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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Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle.
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Have the wisdom to know what cannot be changed, and the strength to change what can.
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First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
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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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No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.
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