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Epictetus Quote - If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

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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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To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.
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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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Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.
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The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
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You have been given your own work to do. Get to it right now, do your best at it, and don’t be concerned with who is watching you. Create your own merit.
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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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When you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
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Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.
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It is unrealistc to expect people to see you as you see yourself.
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Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
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Happiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing.
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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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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 greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
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Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness.
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