Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
EPICTETUSMan is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
More Epictetus Quotes
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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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Only the educated are free.
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Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.
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Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle.
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The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
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Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
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It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous, even death is terrible only if we fear it.
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Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.
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Don’t be concerned with other people’s impressions of you. They are dazzled and deluded by appearances. Stick with your purpose. This alone will strengthen your will and give your life coherence.
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To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.
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A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
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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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Don’t live by your own rules, but in harmony with nature.
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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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