If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
EPICTETUSSmall-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness.
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Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness.
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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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Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.
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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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You become what you give your attention to. If you yourself don’t choose what thoughts and images you expose yourself to, someone else will, and their motives may not be the highest.
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Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
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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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No great thing is created suddenly. There must be time. Give your best and always be kind.
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Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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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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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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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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The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
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