Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.
EPICTETUSSeek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.
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If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
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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.
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It is unrealistc to expect people to see you as you see yourself.
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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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Difficulty shows what men are.
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By accepting life’s limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.
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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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Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power.
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A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
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Every difficulty in life presents us with an opportunity to turn inward and to invoke our own submerged inner resources. The trials we endure can and should introduce us to our strengths.
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The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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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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Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
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Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.
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Do not try to seem wise to others.
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