The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
EPICTETUSBooks are the training weights of the mind.
More Epictetus Quotes
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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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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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Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness.
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No matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person.
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Don’t consent to be hurt and you won’t be hurt – this is a choice over which you have control.
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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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It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
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Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
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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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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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The best place to get help is from yourself.
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Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.
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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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Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.
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What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
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