Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.
EPICTETUSDo not try to seem wise to others.
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Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.
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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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Books are the training weights of the mind.
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Try not to react merely in the moment. Pull back from the situation. Take a wider view. Compose yourself.
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Happiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing.
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Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
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Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
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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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We can’t control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character.
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We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.
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It is better to die of hunger having lived without grief and fear, than to live with a troubled spirit, amid abundance.
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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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Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
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If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
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