If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
EPICTETUSFirst say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
More Epictetus Quotes
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Desire and happiness cannot live together.
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Every difficulty in life presents us with an opportunity to turn inward and to invoke our own submerged inner resources. The trials we endure can and should introduce us to our strengths.
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Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
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He who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.
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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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Only the educated are free.
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Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
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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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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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It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
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We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.
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All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
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Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
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If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
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Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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