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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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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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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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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Only the educated are free.
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First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
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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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Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
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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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Do not try to seem wise to others.
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We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.
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It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
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All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
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If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
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He who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.
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