If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
EPICTETUSIf 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.
More Epictetus Quotes
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Don’t live by your own rules, but in harmony with nature.
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It’s so simple really: If you say you’re going to do something, do it. If you start something, finish 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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In trying to please other people, we find ourselves misdirected toward what lies outside our sphere of influence. In doing so, we lose our hold on our lifes purpose.
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We all carry the seeds of greatness within us, but we need an image as a point of focus in order that they may sprout.
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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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Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
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First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
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It is unrealistc to expect people to see you as you see yourself.
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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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People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.
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Do not try to seem wise to others.
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Attach yourself to what is spiritually superior, regardless of what other people think or do. Hold to your true aspirations no matter what is going on around you.
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No man is free who is not master of himself.
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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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