Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
EPICTETUSSmall-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness.
More Epictetus Quotes
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Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
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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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Don’t demand or expect that events happen as you would wish them do. Accept events as they actually happen. That way, peace is possible.
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Other people’s views and troubles can be contagious. Don’t sabotage yourself by unwittingly adopting negative, unproductive attitudes through your associations with others.
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If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
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Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.
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Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your 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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Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
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To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.
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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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Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
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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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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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Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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