We can’t control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character.
EPICTETUSIt takes more than just a good looking body. You’ve got to have the heart and soul to go with it.
More Epictetus Quotes
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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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We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.
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Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
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Demand not that things happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do, and you will go on well.
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It is more necessary for the soul to be cured than the body; for it is better to die than to live badly.
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Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.
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We all dread a bodily paralysis, and would make use of every contrivance to avoid it; but none of us is troubled about a paralysis of the soul.
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Books are the training weights of the mind.
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If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
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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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No man is free who is not master of himself.
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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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All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
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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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Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
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