If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
EPICTETUSSeek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.
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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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Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
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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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The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
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It is unrealistc to expect people to see you as you see yourself.
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Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
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It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
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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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Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
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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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Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.
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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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The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
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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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