Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
EPICTETUSBooks are the training weights of the mind.
More Epictetus Quotes
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Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
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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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If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
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Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
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All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
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We all carry the seeds of greatness within us, but we need an image as a point of focus in order that they may sprout.
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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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No man is free who is not master of himself.
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You can be happy if you know this secret: Some things are within your power to control and some things are not.
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Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.
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Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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Have the wisdom to know what cannot be changed, and the strength to change what can.
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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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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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Try not to react merely in the moment. Pull back from the situation. Take a wider view. Compose yourself.
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