It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
EPICTETUSTentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.
More Epictetus Quotes
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Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
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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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What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
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Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.
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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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Difficulty shows what men are.
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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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It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.
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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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All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
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If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
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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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Desire and happiness cannot live together.
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Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.
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