It’s so simple really: If you say you’re going to do something, do it. If you start something, finish it.
EPICTETUSMake the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
More Epictetus Quotes
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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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Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
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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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Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
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Desire and happiness cannot live together.
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Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
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The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
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The best place to get help is from yourself.
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Happiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing.
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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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It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous, even death is terrible only if we fear it.
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Books are the training weights of the mind.
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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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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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The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
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