It’s time to stop being vague. If you wish to be an extraordinary person, if you wish to be wise, then you should explicitly identify the kind of person you aspire to become.
EPICTETUSTo live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.
More Epictetus Quotes
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Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.
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If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
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If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
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Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
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First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
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Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
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It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
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First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
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Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
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I laugh at those who think they can damage me. They do not know who I am, they do not know what I think, they cannot even touch the things which are really mine and with which I live.
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There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will.
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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
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If you seek Truth, you will not seek to gain a victory by every possible means; and when you have found Truth, you need not fear being defeated.
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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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What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
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