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.
EPICTETUSWe should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.
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The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
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If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
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Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.
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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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It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
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The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
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The best place to get help is from yourself.
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Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
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Freedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our 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 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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Other people’s views and troubles can be contagious. Don’t sabotage yourself by unwittingly adopting negative, unproductive attitudes through your associations with others.
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First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
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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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