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.
EPICTETUSBooks are the training weights of the mind.
More Epictetus Quotes
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It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
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The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
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A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
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Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.
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All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
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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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Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
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There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will.
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If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
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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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By accepting life’s limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.
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Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.
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Happiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing.
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It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
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It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
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