Don’t be concerned with other people’s impressions of you. They are dazzled and deluded by appearances. Stick with your purpose. This alone will strengthen your will and give your life coherence.
EPICTETUSGive me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
More Epictetus Quotes
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Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.
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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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The best place to get help is from yourself.
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If you wish to live a life free from sorrow, think of what is going to happen as if it had already happened.
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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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It takes more than just a good looking body. You’ve got to have the heart and soul to go with it.
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It’s time to stop being vague. If you wish to be an extraordinary person, if you wish to be wise, then you should explicitly identify the kind of person you aspire to become.
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Have the wisdom to know what cannot be changed, and the strength to change what can.
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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
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Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
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Attach yourself to what is spiritually superior, regardless of what other people think or do. Hold to your true aspirations no matter what is going on around you.
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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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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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Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
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Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.
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