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!
More Epictetus Quotes
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Wisdom means understanding without any doubt that circumstances do not rise to meet our expectations. Events happen as they may. People behave as they will.
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It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
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All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
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Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
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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 our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous, even death is terrible only if we fear it.
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He who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.
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It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
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If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
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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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Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
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Freedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
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First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
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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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Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
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Difficulty shows what men are.
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Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness.
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Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.
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Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?
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Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.
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The best place to get help is from yourself.
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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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Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
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Other people’s views and troubles can be contagious. Don’t sabotage yourself by unwittingly adopting negative, unproductive attitudes through your associations with others.
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To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.
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