Books are the training weights of the mind.
EPICTETUSRuin and recovering are both from within.
More Epictetus Quotes
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Have the wisdom to know what cannot be changed, and the strength to change what can.
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If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
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You can be happy if you know this secret: Some things are within your power to control and some things are not.
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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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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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Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
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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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Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle.
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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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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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Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control.
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Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
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Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness.
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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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Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
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