When we blather about trivial things, we ourselves become trivial, for our attention gets taken up with trivialities. You become what you give your attention to.
EPICTETUSWe should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.
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When you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
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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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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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Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control.
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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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All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
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The best place to get help is from yourself.
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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.
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Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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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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First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
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If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
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It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
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The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
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