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.
EPICTETUSRenew every day your conversation with God: Do this even in preference to eating. Think more often of God than you breathe.
More Epictetus Quotes
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Difficulty shows what men are.
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The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
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You become what you give your attention to. If you yourself don’t choose what thoughts and images you expose yourself to, someone else will, and their motives may not be the highest.
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No man is free who is not master of himself.
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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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The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
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Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
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In trying to please other people, we find ourselves misdirected toward what lies outside our sphere of influence. In doing so, we lose our hold on our lifes purpose.
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Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
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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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Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?
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He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
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First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
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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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Renew every day your conversation with God: Do this even in preference to eating. Think more often of God than you breathe.
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