If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
EPICTETUSGive me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
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The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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The best place to get help is from yourself.
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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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All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
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Only the educated are free.
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Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.
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We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.
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It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
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Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
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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.
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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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The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
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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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In trying to please other people, we find ourselves misdirected toward what lies outside our sphere of influence. In doing so, we lose our hold on our lifes purpose.
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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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