Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
EPICTETUSAnything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
More Epictetus Quotes
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Don’t be concerned with other people’s impressions of you. They are dazzled and deluded by appearances. Stick with your purpose. This alone will strengthen your will and give your life coherence.
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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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Only the educated are free.
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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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Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?
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In prosperity it is very easy to find a friend; but in adversity it is the most difficult of all things.
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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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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
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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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Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
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We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.
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Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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He who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.
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It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
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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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