Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.
EPICTETUSWe suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.
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It’s so simple really: If you say you’re going to do something, do it. If you start something, finish it.
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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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Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
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Desire and happiness cannot live together.
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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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The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
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If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
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All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
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It is better to die of hunger having lived without grief and fear, than to live with a troubled spirit, amid abundance.
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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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The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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Renew every day your conversation with God: Do this even in preference to eating. Think more often of God than you breathe.
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Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
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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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Don’t live by your own rules, but in harmony with nature.
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We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.
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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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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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The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
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Have the wisdom to know what cannot be changed, and the strength to change what can.
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Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
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No matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person.
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Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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Books are the training weights of the mind.
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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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Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power.
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