You have been given your own work to do. Get to it right now, do your best at it, and don’t be concerned with who is watching you. Create your own merit.
EPICTETUSThe greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
More Epictetus Quotes
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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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Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.
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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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It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.
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The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
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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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The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
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Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
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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.
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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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Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.
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To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.
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Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.
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Happiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing.
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