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.
EPICTETUSBooks are the training weights of the mind.
More Epictetus Quotes
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Only the educated are free.
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Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness.
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Books are the training weights of the mind.
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First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
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Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
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Happiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing.
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Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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Don’t live by your own rules, but in harmony with nature.
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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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Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.
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He who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.
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Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
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The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
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Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.
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Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
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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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Do not try to seem wise to others.
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Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
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Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
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No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.
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In prosperity it is very easy to find a friend; but in adversity it is the most difficult of all things.
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Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
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Difficulty shows what men are.
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Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
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Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.
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If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
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