Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
EPICTETUSBooks are the training weights of the mind.
More Epictetus Quotes
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If you seek Truth, you will not seek to gain a victory by every possible means; and when you have found Truth, you need not fear being defeated.
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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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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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Do not try to seem wise to others.
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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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Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.
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Don’t demand or expect that events happen as you would wish them do. Accept events as they actually happen. That way, peace is possible.
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He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
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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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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
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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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We all dread a bodily paralysis, and would make use of every contrivance to avoid it; but none of us is troubled about a paralysis of the soul.
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Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
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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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If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
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