It’s so simple really: If you say you’re going to do something, do it. If you start something, finish it.
EPICTETUSNo great thing is created suddenly. There must be time. Give your best and always be kind.
More Epictetus Quotes
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It is better to die of hunger having lived without grief and fear, than to live with a troubled spirit, amid abundance.
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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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It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
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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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Don’t live by your own rules, but in harmony with nature.
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Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.
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Freedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.
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We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.
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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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What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
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Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
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If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
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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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The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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