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.
EPICTETUSGive me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
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A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
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First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
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All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
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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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Don’t live by your own rules, but in harmony with nature.
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Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
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Demand not that things happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do, and you will go on well.
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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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It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
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Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.
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I laugh at those who think they can damage me. They do not know who I am, they do not know what I think, they cannot even touch the things which are really mine and with which I live.
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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’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
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Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
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In prosperity it is very easy to find a friend; but in adversity it is the most difficult of all things.
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